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, which was pushed by organized labor to crack down on the hard-to-unionize so-called gig economy represented by companies such as Uber and Lyft, was enacted ostensibly to help workers by preventing their “misclassification.” The law is deeply unpopular in California’s business community. The Supreme Court has yet to decide if it will take up an appeal by the California Trucking Association Inc. from a ruling from earlier this year by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. As The Epoch Times previously reported, the association argues that the 9th Circuit was wrong to reject …