‘STEP UP’ OR SECTION 230 IS OUT: House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson
Thompson said during a hearing on the threat of domestic terrorism that there appears to be bipartisan support to look at reforming the landmark law that provides companies a legal liability shield over content posted on their platforms by third parties.
“So for those companies that might be listening to this hearing, it’s absolutely essential that they step up in a big way, because obviously from a question and responses there s interest on the right and left Democrat and Republican that we have to look at it. And I assure you as chair we will,” he said.
The California Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to take up the Service Employees International Union's bid to strike down a ballot measure exempting many "gig economy" companies from a state law making it difficult to classify workers as independent contractors.
The California Supreme Court on Thursday reversed course and gave its blessing to a provisional licensure program that will create a path for bar exam applicants who would've passed the test under the state's newly lowered pass score to practice law in the Golden State.
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Just two months after 58% of Californians voted it into effect and not even one month after it became law of the state, a group of workers and a major union have filed suit to overturn the results of Proposition 22, the ballot measure that ensured that app-based rideshare and delivery drivers could be classified as independent contractors. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) joined with a group of rideshare drivers to go straight to the California Supreme Court on January 12 and ask it to invalidate the new law as being unconstitutional and otherwise unenforceable.
Drivers for Uber, Lyft and other app-based services filed a petition in California Supreme Court on Tuesday asking the state justices to declare voter-approved Proposition 22 unconstitutional for allegedly limiting the state legislature's power to provide workers' compensation, deceiving voters and usurping the judiciary's authority to interpret the law.