For at least the time being, California’s AB 5 independent contractor classification law is in effect for the trucking industry after Judge Roger Benitez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California lifted on Monday the trucking industry’s injunction that had been in place since January 2020.
According to a law alert from transportation legal firm Scopelitis, Gavin, Light, Hanson and Feary, Benitez lifted the injunction, which had been reversed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in April 2021. The case was eventually elevated to the U.S. Supreme Court, with the injunction remaining in place until the conclusion of the legal battle, and SCOTUS officially declined to hear the case earlier this summer.
