A federal court panel has unanimously ruled that it’s not a violation of freelance journalists’ First Amendment rights for the state of California to restrict their ability to work and be published as independent contractors.
A federal court panel has unanimously ruled that it’s not a violation of freelance journalists’ First Amendment rights for the state of California to restrict their ability to work and be published as independent contractors.
It may be legal, but it is not moral and it is certainly leftist.
So much for the first amendment.
Laws written on behalf of big labour political clients intended to make others less competitive suffer no shortages of judicial law makers to endorse. As most lawyers opine and rule accordingly, the Constitution is a mercurial document no mater how intended to give the legal “profession” endless work in reshaping, contorting, and utterly destroying.
Canada’s was written to do just that.
And anyone writing for an official media company will be fired if they critique this ruling.
It’d be best for all conservatives to leave californistan and then just wait for the Big One.
The state is a liberal hell and can’t be redeemed. Time to write it off and start over.
mhb23re
When does the rest of the US get to vote on California separation?
Asking for a friend.
Couldn’t tell you.
Personally, I’m more interested in casting a ballot in the next Quebec referendum.
mhb
The press lawyers made the wrong argument, and thus lost.
The correct argument is that AB5 violates the 1st amendment clause about freedom of association, and the 14th equal protection clauses, affecting the press, owner-operator truckers, people who aren’t a member of the taxi cartel, and contractors of various types.
given that it’s the ninth circus, it probably wouldn’t matter
“The press lawyers made the wrong argument . . .”
The 1st amendment doesn’t set rates. The right at issue isn’t to speak, it’s to contract.
Today’s crop of hacks are the journalism school grads unable to find work in public relations, where all the real money in communications is. Even if you’re serious about telling the truth, there’s damned little money in doing so. The “freelancers” are mostly still living with their parents, or bored housewives working for pin money.
If the news media can’t afford to pay the hacks what it costs to keep body and soul together, the hacks need to learn a new trade while they’re still young and strong enough to make a living doing it.
Lord knows there will be plenty of open positions in nursing soon.
Chipping away on freedom ever so gently.
Now that the courts support dickatorship, that would be the final phase of fall, of once greatest democracy since there was democracy.
When freedom to publish thoughts in print, in radio, in teevee is abolished, there is nowhere else to go but revolution.
Zero sympathy from me for California “Free Lance Journalists”.
The bastards voted for this kind of shit soup, so let them swim in it.
When the SCOTUS issued a blanket ruling in the Obamakkare case by saying the government has the ABSOLUTE right to TAX … suddenly … all the other enumerated Rights of citizen’s under the Constitution fell away. The Right of the government to TAX took precedence over Americans Right to choose their own Doctor (the Constitution did NOT give that Right to the Government).
So the whole reason for limiting the Freedom of Independent Contractors is to collect taxes. To make as many people as possible “employees” and thus forcing the tax collection of said workers. Independent Contractors pay taxes quarterly, if at all … due to the attendant write-offs they enjoy for business expenses. I am an Independent Contractor … in CA … so I know. And yes, I meet ALL the tests of an Independent Contractor … since 1990 … despite this ruling.
And this CA Law was aimed squarely at UBER. And judging by all the UBER rides I have taken by men named Mohammed with limited English skills, there is another component to this CA Law … to protect Muslim immigrants. Yes, the State believes they are “protecting” all these Muslim immigrant drivers from harm by making them “employees”. Oh and since UBER is a multi-billion $ CA startup … they can’t have a big corporation escaping ANY tax payments.
Is it any wonder so many corporations are saying goodbye to CA?
One of the by-products of this will be media corporations stealing blog content and lifting photographs from private contractors without cost….initially. Those lawsuits should be fun.