Commentary The Port of Oakland in California’s San Francisco Bay is America’s ninth-busiest container port, handling more than 2.4 million 20-foot shipping containers a year. All last week, though, its docks were piled high with unloaded containers, and an armada of freighters stacked with still more containers sat idling in the bay—thanks to a week-long…

The Supreme Court turned away a challenge to California’s “radical” worker-classification law that virtually outlaws independent contracting, including independent trucking, and clamps down on the so-called gig economy. The ruling has the effect of ending a temporary stay preventing enforcement of the law, known as AB5, against motor carriers while the appeal to the Supreme…

The Supreme Court will not consider a challenge by Cal Cartage Transportation Express, a trucking company, to that state’s unusually restrictive worker-classification law that virtually outlaws independent contracting. Independent truckers say the California law known as AB5, which took effect Jan. 1, 2020, will kill their industry by preventing companies from hiring them. The statute,…

PASADENA, Calif.—A federal appeals court meeting in Pasadena today rejected a bid by groups representing journalists and photographers to revive a lawsuit arguing that California’s strict worker classification law violates freelancers’ First Amendment free-speech rights. The lawsuit brought by the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the National Press Photographers Association challenging Assembly Bill…