Labor/Employment,
California Courts of Appeal
Dec. 14, 2022
Appeal court hears argument over gig worker referendum
“This case concerns unprecedented limitations on the initiative power, one of the most precious rights of our democratic process,” Deputy Attorney General Jose A. Zelidon-Zepeda said in his opening. “The case law makes clear that courts should indulge all reasonable inferences in favor of the initiative process because of its primacy as a reserved power of the people.”
What do the independent state legislatures theory and the death penalty for people who send spam texts have in common? Both came up in a long, wide-ranging appellate argument Tuesday over a lower court decision throwing out a voter-passed initiative governing gig workers.
“This case concerns unprecedented limitations on the initiative power, one of the most precious rights of our democratic process,” Deputy Attorney General Jose A. Zelidon-...
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