Calif. Federal Judge Rejects Claims That State Worker Status Bill Is Preempted

(March 18, 2024, 2:38 PM EDT) -- SAN DIEGO — A California bill that codified the “ABC test” for classifying worker status isn’t preempted by the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994 (FAAAA or F4A) or prohibited by the U.S. Constitution’s dormant commerce clause or the equal protection clause of the U.S. and California constitutions, a federal judge in that state ruled March 15, opining that fixing any deficiencies in the bill is “the kind of work better left to the soap box and the ballot box than to the jury box.”...

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