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On April 28, California submitted a petition to the Ninth Circuit in Olson v. California, seeking review or a rehearing before a new panel of judges, after a Ninth Circuit panel in March unanimously held that the plaintiffs (Uber, Postmates, and individual drivers for those companies) had plausibly alleged that AB 5, the union-backed law forcing gig workers to be employees, rather than independent contractors, violated their rights under the equal protection clause of the Constitution.
