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posted by martyb on Friday August 21 2020, @11:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the death-by-litigation dept.

Last-minute California ruling means Uber and Lyft won't shut down today:

A California judge has granted Uber and Lyft an emergency reprieve from an order requiring them to treat their drivers as employees. The companies were facing a Thursday deadline to comply with the order. Earlier today, Lyft announced that it would be forced to shut down in the state at midnight tonight.

[...] Uber had warned that it was likely to do the same if the courts didn't delay enforcement of the law.

[...] The judge's emergency stay means that Lyft and Uber will be able to keep operating under their current model while they continue litigating whether the new law applies to them.

Previously:
California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft to Immediately Classify Drivers as Employees


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2020, @06:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2020, @06:06PM (#1040006)

    Rail car (think Trolly) service showing up between the late 1800s and the 1940s or so. It got quashed by the automotive companies buying them up and shutting them down in order to increase demand for cars. There are still portions of abandoned lines between Sacramento and Elk Grove related to this, and supposedly the line would have extended to Stockton otherwise.

    For now we have Amtrak and freight rail, but in an alternate future we could have had ubiquitous rail lines running all over the state. Unfortunately once a certain level of sprawl set in and eminent domain got (rightfully!) frowned upon here, the chances of new rail lines more or less dried up. Unfortunately that eminent domain issue i mentioned still comes up when the moneyed and politically motivated push for it, and usually results in the ED'd land being sold for a pittance a few years/decades later after the government sat on it and depreciated its sell value, while the actual land prices were increasing (you can find examples all over the state.)

    For all certain individiuals talk about how 'liberal' California is, there is a lot of nasty front and back room dealing here around real estate and other unfavorable business ventures and tax breaks. Go look into how many citiies are willing to cut deals giving companies industrial quantities of water at residential rates while telling their people they are in a drought, and at the same time giving companies 10 year no tax deals only to have them leave at the beginning of that 11th year where they are supposed to start recouping taxes. Lots of obvious corruption and stupidity out here that shows the pro-business crowd is bipartisan, whatever crap they sell you on the face of it.