Uber, Postmates Get Appeal Win in Worker Classification Case (2)

Uber Technologies Inc. won reinstatement of its federal court claim that California’s worker classification law unfairly disfavors app-based ride hail and delivery services.

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday reversed a lower court ruling rejecting Uber and Postmates’ arguments that California was targeting specific companies “like a heat-seeking missile” as Uber’s counsel told the court during July oral arguments.

“Plaintiffs plausibly allege that the primary impetus for the enactment of A.B. 5 was the disfavor with which the architect of the legislation viewed Uber, Postmates, and similar gig-based business models,” Judge ...