OOIDA appeal: AB5 will kill off lease drivers, raising Commerce Clause issues

Faced with dwindling legal avenues to prevent California independent contractor law AB5 from governing the state’s trucking sector, one of the two plaintiffs is continuing to fight an uphill battle with a new argument in its latest brief.

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, in the first brief filed before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in the latest appeal of an earlier decision, uses the Business to Business Exemption in AB5 as an argument for why the courts should block AB5 from enforcement in Golden State trucking.

OOIDA and its co-plaintiff, the California Trucking Association, turned to the appeals court after a federal district court ruled in March that federal law does not prohibit California from enforcing

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