DL Open Thread Tuesday March 14 2023
Uber, Lyft Score Victory as California Court Affirms Right to Treat Drivers as Contractors
Uber Technologies Inc., UBER -0.93%decrease; red down pointing triangle Lyft Inc. LYFT -2.87%decrease; red down pointing triangle and other companies scored a victory with a California court ruling that preserves their independent-contractor model in the state and could boost their efforts to maintain that model elsewhere.
A state appeals court said that workers should continue to be treated as independent contractors under a California ballot measure known as Proposition 22, though it asked that a clause which put restrictions on collective bargaining by workers be severed from it.
News for some of our dumb lurkers:
Is It True That 15 Banks Failed During Trump’s Presidency?
Claim: During former U.S. President Donald Trump’s presidency, 15 U.S. banks failed.Fact check by Snopes.com: True
Whatever conservative ethos of restraint there once was has vanished.
By its own maneuvering, the modern Supreme Court has made itself the most powerful branch of government. Superior to Congress. Superior to the president. Superior to the states. Superior to precedent, procedure, and norms. In effect, superior to the people.
Most talked about in this regard, of course, is the Court’s ending of long-established reproductive rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. But the assertion of extreme power extends well beyond the issue of abortion.
Another day, another youth pastor.
Dennis W. Laferty, the pastor of Thompson United Methodist Church in Thompson Township, was indicted by a Geauga County grand jury after an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against minors, according to a news release from the Geauga County Sheriff’s Office.
Laferty, 37, is indicted on the following charges:
- Five counts of sexual battery, a third-degree felony
- One count of gross sexual imposition, a third-degree felony
- One count of sexual imposition, a third-degree misdemeanor
The alleged abuse is said to have occurred between 2019 and January 2023, according to the indictment.
In the third world the supreme court would have already been “fixed”, as a handful of bullets are added to the mix. After the Roe vs. Wade fiasco let no one say “It can’t happen here”, as it most decidedly can happen here.
If by “car enthusiasts” they mean “speeding scofflaw assholes with busted mufflers” they may be right.
Of all the things we could be #1 in, I’d put that last.
RIP Patricia Schroeder–A Progressive ‘Til The End:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/obituaries/pat-schroeder-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Obituaries