Feud Over Uber-Lyft Worker Law Will Ripple Beyond California (1)

The unending battle over a California ballot measure classifying app-based drivers as independent contractors has the potential to impact a slew of pending misclassification cases and efforts to replicate the law elsewhere, even as a ruling that struck it down is tied up in appeals for the foreseeable future.

A state judge held last week that Proposition 22 is unconstitutional, in a decision that some management attorneys and proponents of the measure described as “unprecedented” and at odds with the democratic process. Uber Technologies Inc.—which banded with Lyft Inc., DoorDash Inc., and others to funnel about $200 ...