Pay no attention to the corporate press claims to the contrary. This was always a desert.
Fun weekend. All I did was chop down half of a tree while it was still reasonably cool out (105), then decided when the mailman delivered the mail on Saturday I should take his advice and go back inside. That guy was moving slow as hell, and so was I.
In other climate change related news, a rather large dust storm hit the SE Valley.
¡Enlaces!
After Mexico’s win in the Gold Cup Tournament. A guy in LA was confused and angered by a Mexican kid that only spoke English. To that guy I can only say: “get fucked.”
Its not all good news, a Mexican vigilante killed in a literal hail of bullets.
It kills me how few people understand this. Crypto transactions are open to the public.
I thought financial crimes was the bulk of Panama’s non-canal related economy?
Wife: “I wonder why there are so many Argentines playing in MLS, you’d think they would have a bigger league there.”
Me: “I wouldn’t want to be paid in Argentine Pesos either.”
In light of BRICS going to BRICS, the war in Ukraine, etc. The EU is dangling goodies at Latin American countries in an attempt to continue keeping them aligned towards the west.
They’re doing some real Orwellian stuff in Brazil.
I promise its not the blonde girl that wears too much makeup. Although, I did find her in the search results looking for this.
I like pictures of haboobs. Very exciting.
I’m disappoint in myself. I missed Spud jerking his meat last night.
Better than a radstorm.
Carried over from dedthred. My kid’s graduating today.
Congrats.
Which kid from which type of institution?
XY, high school
👍
Congrats! My youngest just graduated back in June. We got her party out of the way the prior week, before it got too hot.
Congratulations
🎓 🥳
Yet another reason (along with OBE’s new gig) to declare today an Official Frabjous Day! 😃 Mazel tov!
Huzzah!
Woot!
Congrats!
Congrats! It’s all down hill from here.
That’s what you’re supposed to say to XY, not Moje.
👌🏻👏🏻👍🏻
In the Marines I had a friend from LA who was Mexican but grew up only speaking English. He eventually learned Spanish while living in Spain for a while.
All the Mexican guys would crack up whenever he said anything in Spanish because he (apparently) had a crazy accent like some cartoon character they used to watch. None of us gringos got it.
He probably had that horrible Spanish lithp.
Yeah, Spanish Spanish sounds strange to me and I don’t even speak Spanish.
Castillian. They don’t do that in other parts of Spain.
But they do it the part that counts, which means everyone else in Spain learns it and does it in certain circumstances too.
It’s the lisp.
Never saw my Mexican Marines laugh harder.
“No, this is not Theñor Gometh from Barthelona.”
My very bad spanish is castillian. Mexican spanish sounds funny to me.
Hola. ¿Que pastho?
My BIL used to tease my sister about her school learned Spanish. Apparently it was like hearing RP to his ears.
What’s wrong with RP?
Nothing, but does sound a bit posh.
Nuffing wrong to me ears.
My BIL is of Mexican descent, doesn’t speak a lick of Spanish, and doesn’t care to.
My kid’s graduating today.
*toots horn, throws confetti*
Also, fine choice of song. I think that song is on the soundtrack to the Last Action Hero, starring Charles Dance, which is awesome.
Very underrated movie.
If Bolsonaro could have seen the future he might just have pulled the trigger on the feared coup. He, like Trump, underestimated leftist viciousness I’m afraid.
I don’t think Trump is taking seriously enough either.
I’d have the plane gassed up and ready.
Where would he go that wouldn’t extradite him?
Russia.
Solomon Islands? Bahrain?
I think Bahrain would play ball, lest they lose the 5th fleet.
Probably.
A compound in the Solomons would be fine with me.
The right tends to have respect for traditions and institutions, and they assume the left does. But the left has no problem tearing everything down to get what they want.
The heart of owning the libs.
And the only thing they want is what they will never get; immunity from mocking. It is why they hate the whole concept of Owning the Libs.
Har dee fucking har
The founder of the political organization No Labels insists the group would end its third-party White House push if such an effort is helping former President Trump.
No Labels founder and CEO Nancy Jacobson in an interview with NBC News declined to say what metrics the group would use to make that choice.
“As a Democrat? Categorically, that will not happen,” Jacobson said in response to a question over concerns that a third-party ballot could take away votes from President Biden. “This effort will never — we’ll pull it down.”
“We will not spoil for either side. The only reason to do this is to win,” she added.
——-
No Labels has been pushing for a bipartisan ticket to land a third-party bid to the White House and has recently launched a campaign in New Hampshire. Ben Chavis, the Democratic co-chairman of No Labels, also told NBC News last month that the group “is not and will not be a spoiler in favor of Donald Trump in 2024.”
You wouldn’t be doing this if you didn’t think it could maybe cut the legs out from under Trump.
“No Trump” would have been too honest.
We have to do this, just this one time, to eliminate an existential threat. After we get the job done, our days of identifying Hitlers are over.
Florida kid
3-year-old driving golf cart in Florida hits and kills 7-year-old, police say
I hope they found meth on one of them.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador won power in 2018 vowing to “pacify” his country with a dramatic, socially focused change in security policy he called “abrazos no balazos” – “hugs not bullets”.
That slogan is so inane that I’m surprised that none of the victim-disarmament NGOs in the US hasn’t adopted it.
The slogan in the US would be “Bricks not bullets.”
“Batteries AND bullets.”
-Philly
Nuclear Arms Can’t Hug a Child.
Remember that?
It kills me how few people understand this. Crypto transactions are open to the public.
I still don’t get it. I’ve read and listened to a ton of explanation and analysis and nada.
Nice song choice.
The EU has to invest somewhere – it’s not like they can make any money in Europe…
Not even Ukraine?
Larry Fink met with Zelensky last December and sewed up the Ukrainian racket for BlackRock. Europe is out of luck on that deal.
Suckers.
It’s as good as fixed
In his first full day as Denver’s new mayor, Mike Johnston on Tuesday morning declared a state of emergency around homelessness and announced that he plans to house 1,000 unsheltered people by the end of the year.
Johnston said he will tour 78 neighborhoods across the city to accomplish his goal and that his staff will work with landlords, property owners and hotels to find housing availability. His administration is also looking at nearly 200 public plots to place tiny home communities where people experiencing homelessness can be housed.
“This is what we think is the most important crisis the city is facing,” Johnston said at a news conference at the Denver’s City and County Building. “We took the oath yesterday to commit to taking on this problem.”
All they needed was the right combination of empty promises and vacuous platitudes.
“Unsheltered”. If you just keep changing the word, the problem will go away on its own.
Gimme Shelter
mmmm…there’s the good stuff
I’m not a Stones addict or fanboi, but I strongly suspect this is a top ten R&R tune of all time
I’m open to being wrong but just can’t imagine there being ten better
“Residentially challenged”.
Suburbanly underlocated.
He can start by tearing down the Royal Palace Motel (or allowing the owners to tear it down).
I don’t know what is going to be built there, but it would house more people than currently. Although I am sure the rat population would be upset.
https://denverite.com/2021/05/15/something-may-finally-be-happening-with-that-giant-motel-at-colfax-and-colorado/
Two years later, it is still there.
Just accidentally run a bulldozer through the building and call it a day.
Turns out the solution is an industrial woodchipper.
Every big city in the country is paying for the decision not to deal with vagrancy and panhandling early. When a Mpls cop buddy told me ten years ago that they weren’t allowed to roust bums I knew it was just a matter of time.
plans to house 1,000 unsheltered people
By force, if necessary. Or was that next year’s plan?
California Supreme Court rejects SCOTUS decision, keeps state labor law alive
Workers in California can use a unique state law to join together and seek penalties against their employer for violating labor laws, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday, rejecting a U.S. Supreme Court decision that would have effectively nullified the California law.
The Private Attorneys General Act of 2004, or PAGA, lets employees sue their employers, individually or collectively, in the name of the state for violating laws such as those regulating minimum wages, overtime, sick pay and meal and rest breaks. If the suits succeed, the employees collect 25% of the penalties provided by labor law, and the state collects 75%.
Last June, the nation’s high court ruled 8-1 that PAGA violates the rights of businesses whose contracts require workers to take disputes to individual arbitration rather than going to court, a common practice for large companies. Arbitrators’ decisions are virtually unappealable, and studies have found that they usually favor employers, their frequent customers.
But as Justice Goodwin Liu observed in Monday’s 7-0 ruling — quoting another U.S. Supreme Court decision — “the highest court of each State… remains the final arbiter of what is state law.” And under the California court’s interpretation of PAGA, Liu said, employees may have to arbitrate their own claims but can still join co-workers to sue their employer on behalf of the state.
I got nothing.
This way leads to madness.
Any business located in California should be putting serious work into an exit plan right now.
SCOTUS says “your law is not valid”
California says “nah, it’s fine”
Open fucking rebellion.
Biden just told the court to go screw, he was passing debt forgiveness. Who is going to stop him?
I can say, if California can do that, Texas can do what they want.
It’s coming to that. “John Marshall made his decision….” You know the drill
The new debt forgiveness plan is wrong in a new way, so SCOTUS will need to smack it down for a different reason than the last one. So, while Biden is telling SCOTUS to fuck off, it’s not in the same league as openly rejecting a SCOTUS ruling.
South Carolina tried that once. Once.
And it cost 800,000 dead to end their rebellion.
I didn’t RTFA, but is this a case where USSC decided on narrow grounds, the state then has subsequently decided something different on other grounds, and now the reporters are too ignorant of law to figure it out or too mendacious and focused on stirring the shit that they’re intentionally misrepresenting the situation?
But as Justice Goodwin Liu observed in Monday’s 7-0 ruling — quoting another U.S. Supreme Court decision — “the highest court of each State… remains the final arbiter of what is state law.
While completely ignoring that SCOTUS gets to decide if “state law” violates the US Constitution or not.
It’s horseshit.
What I want to know what means SCOTUS has to punish these morons.
The issue is that they want it both ways. They want to be able to ignore the Feds on certain issues and not on others.
We’ll see if California is up for testing the 14th Amendment’s incorporation doctrine.
if the same part or the same entirety of the same clause with the same facts are in play, you would be right……but I suspect none of us know whether that’s true
part of the law might have been ruled unconstitutional while another part with different considerations might not have been….that’s what we mean by narrow ruling; I’m too lazy to find out if these is one of those cases
Last June, the nation’s high court ruled 8-1 that PAGA violates the rights of businesses
Seems straightforward.
Liu said, employees may have to arbitrate their own claims but can still join co-workers to sue their employer on behalf of the state.
So, employees are individuals who must use arbitration per their contract, but groups of employees may act as agents of the state and sue the employer.
Still smells like horseshit to me. {insert Critical Drinker’s video clip — I smell Shite}
I’m not going to argue a ruling I haven’t read, but I’m saying it is unlikely that the ruling is simple, short, or straightforward…..extremely unlikely. There is surely context to the ruling that many changes in the facts could easily end-run the narrow decision legally. I don’t know how else to explain it to you. Especially in the press, we should expect two things: the context is being oversimplified for partisan advantage, and the writer doesn’t know WTF he is writing about. Regarding law and rulings, my experience is this set of circumstances is the case a very very firm majority of the time. Surely you noticed how many USSC decisions were misrepresented this past term….it’s not some temporary excursion: it is the our status quo.
can some lawyer help me explain this?
But I want my black pills . . . . .
I shall now wait for the dust to settle to find out what the truth is.
What I want to know what means SCOTUS has to punish these morons.
Same thing they throw at the NY Court of Appeals and/or state legislature.
Yes, let’s establish that precedent.
So the fuck what? The SCotUS ruling in question was 8-1.
“Those of us on this stage took an oath today,” he said at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, “but for us to succeed, every Denverite must take their own oath, an oath to dream, to serve and to deliver. To dream (of) a Denver bold enough to include all of us, to serve our city above ourselves, to march on shoulder to shoulder, undeterred by failure, until we deliver results.”
“We do this not because it is easy, but because it id hard. Ich bin Denver Omelette.”
” to serve our city above ourselves,”
You know, fuck you Mr. Mayor. I’m getting tired of this shit. I serve my family, I try to do the right thing by the people I work with and the students in my classes. I take care of church stuff. I give to other charities. I do my best to be pleasant to everyone I encounter. I drive in the right-hand lane, hold the door for everyone, wave people in front of me.
And now – if I lived in Denver – I’m supposed to buy into your vision. How about this: you stay out of my promises and commitments and I’ll stay out of yours.
Reason number something something million I am an hour away from Denver.
LOL.
I’ve been there three or four times in two years. Basketball game, hockey game and meeting Dan G at a brewery.
Fuck big cities. I’ll take my boring exurb any time.
“It’s the blatant criminalization of political opinion.”
It’s worse than that: I’d assume some of his followers are fans, they just want to know what’s going on.
From the thread:
Are you surprised? I’m not. A totalitarian system is installed in Brazil and the Supreme Court is In control of Brazil. A monocratic system is in place, it goes through only 1 Justice, which is Alexandre de Moraes. There’s no democracy in Brazil!!!!!!
It will be interesting to see if Lula has cleared the military ranks yet. This could instigate a coup. Brazil has a long history with military rule.
The joy of societies given over to cults of personality.
Also- I find it amusing to see how much the idea of a third party “centrist” terrifies the Democrats. They know exactly how vulnerable Joe is.
By vulnerable you of course mean a lock for 2024…
“decided when the mailman delivered the mail on Saturday I should take his advice and go back inside. ”
Good idea. At those temps it’s best to drink some beers and then take a siesta.
I should follow my own advice, I’ve been working like a dog the past few days in 90+ with swampy humidity.
I had to wait on beer. Sweating too much I’d just sweat beer into my couch.
As opposed to waiting for it to get to the toilet?
Its hot enough it wont get there. I drink and I don’t get drunk. I don’t know what it is, but it can’t be healthy.
Tolerance?
This seems a little late…
https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/las-vegas-police-search-home-in-connection-with-tupac-shakur-murder/
“Las Vegas Metro police searched a home Monday as part of its ongoing investigation into the death of Tupac Shakur, police confirmed to Nexstar’s KLAS. Shakur was shot and killed one block off the Las Vegas Strip in September 1996.”
When seconds count, the police are 27 years away.
What are they looking for, shell casings taped into a scrapbook?
Rap lyrics confessing to the crime
Trump.
I am assuming the Argentinians in MLS aren’t good enough to play in Europe.
Correct.
Or Argentina. They have a perfect respectable league themselves.
Yeah, but a US dollar still beats a handful of Argentine pesos.
Open fucking rebellion.
How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?
Not enough.
But, I would love to see the US Marshall Service show up and arrest the members of the CA Supreme Court for contempt.
And let me guess: half the country is totally down with it.
That guy really is the Trump of Brazil.
Lula? I thought Bolsonaro was the Trump of Brazil.
That is who I was referring to.
Anne Applebaum In rare form…
IS TENNESSEE A DEMOCRACY?
What happened when a Republican supermajority gained control—and wasn’t satisfied
Now do California…
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/tennessee-republican-partisanship-one-party-state/674732/
But one-Party Democrats is great because the Democrats are right about everything. I mean come on.
Ask her about Ukraine’s “democracy “
The mandatory sexbots are definitely happening
https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1681350024200962053
What a twat. Just leave us alone.
I second your motion. That guy can fuck right off. I get the damn marxist sermons shoved in my ears enough. Get off my lawn, hippie!
TimOnPoint
@TimOnPoint
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2h
Here’s an idea, don’t lock people in their houses and out of schools, gyms, playgrounds, beaches…
More bowling alleys, more fraternal lodges, more hockey rinks.
There. Problem solved.
This guy gets it.
Did I tell you I’m playing men’s league with my kid? Kind of cool playing on the same line. I’m too old for this team, but IDGAF. Sitting on the bench, talking about the next shift and having a beer in the parking lot is a good fucking antidote to loneliness.
Speaking of a beer in a parking lot, drop the DUI bullshit. You want people to talk to each other? Stop making them leave a bar before a buzz. Make it fun again.
Oh, and congratulations on the job posting.
You’ll get more drag shows for kids and you’ll like it.
You’ll be “socially connected” whether you like it or not.
I’m really looking forward to sitting on the front porch of a nursing home, being hectored into a conversation by some do-good Americorps volunteer with the intent to save me from my loneliness.
Caseworker Alice Pitney salivates at the thought.
If the President can unilaterally re-write loan agreements, en masse, for the benefit of “cash strapped borrowers” what’s to stop some other President from re-writing loan agreements to save cash strapped banks?
Ask GM’s secured creditors about that.
+1 UAW Pension.
From the ded thred.
Doesn’t matter what was intended, the clear text of 13A prohibits conscription. Leaving that aside, the drafters explicitly excluded punishments from convictions and having recently fought a war using conscription, they weren’t unaware of it and yet they didn’t include a similar exception.
Wasn’t this litigated during Vietnam War? No one would have fled to Canada if SCOTUS had decided in favor of the draft resisters on 13th amendment grounds.
WWI not Vietnam.
“they weren’t unaware of it and yet they didn’t include a similar exception.”
Exactly, they were well aware of it, so if they had meant to include it, they would have.
Conscription was not considered to be slavery or indentured servitude.
There also was NO federal conscription, until WWI.
But but it was meant by ‘raise an army’ language!
Get woke, start liquidating assets…
https://wdwnt.com/2023/07/disney-ceo-bob-iger-looking-to-sell-abc-fx-and-freeform/
Not just lying a little bit…
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/wuhan-lab-leak-so-friggin-likely-new-slack-messages-reveal-massive-media-deception-fauci
Racket should not put that behind a paywall.
Taibbi usually has at least an abbreviated public version.
Aww, c’mon, be a sport
Arresting Vladimir Putin would amount to a declaration of war on Russia, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa wrote in court papers released on Tuesday as the country wrangles over hosting the Russian leader.
Putin has been invited to a BRICS summit in Johannesburg next month but is the target of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant — a provision that Pretoria as an ICC member would be expected to implement were he to attend.
South Africa’s diplomatic dilemma is playing out in court, where the leading opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), is trying to force the government’s hand and ensure the Kremlin leader is held and handed over to the ICC if he steps foot in the country.
But in a responding affidavit, Ramaphosa described the DA’s application as “irresponsible” and said national security was at stake.
“Russia has made it clear that arresting its sitting President would be a declaration of war,” he said.
We’ll be right over here to back you up.
Ugggh. That’s a really long flight. Its like 8 hours to Europe, and then another 12 due south.
Send in Dog the bounty hunter.
Culture of Narcissism
https://twitter.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1681334245111787520
That’s been making the rounds today.
So breathtakingly evil. I’m getting more comfortable with the cleansing fire.
Dude, the product was not up to snuff.
That baby had to serve as the ideal virtue signal for them.
If the surrogate was a man she would have done a better job.
FUUUUUCK. that whole thing is fucked.
Lane splitters getting smeared into the pavement get what they deserve. Like Idaho stops, those idiots have destroyed any goodwill towards their recreational activity.
*looks around shiftly*
*raises hand slowly*
I split lanes /quiet voice
as long as you’re not hogging the left hand lane, I can’t say I care about hardly any driving conduct
Lane splitting is just fine if done right.
Lane splitters think they’re cute until they’re a pile of bio hazmat on a freeway somewhere. I feel sorry for the driver who can’t avoid hitting one of the dumbsumbitches.
I think it’s a retarded rule in the age of technology.
I split lanes in the mega Jeep all the time. People honk and wave at me. They seem so friendly.
Fuck that. Lane splitting is important for the rider and trafic. Drivers need to learn to look around and not at the fucking phones.
And yes, I lane split proudly. Fuck the cage.
Rule-following motorcyclists I can deal with. Speeding donor-cyclists, I hope never to collide with one.
Lane splitting is legal in lots of locations and it is needed to keep bikers safe. Lots of bikes get hit from behind in stop and go traffic. Also a bike can overheat easily if no air is moving ( specially air cooled).
Yes, stop-and-go traffic. I get and observe the principle.
(Not snarky; my abundant condolences about doggo.)
Apparently Hannity lost to Maddow in last night’s ratings.
That is some funny shit right there.
Didn’t he interview some “fascist?”
It’s my 25th wedding anniversary today! Going out to a nice place for dinner.
Felicitations! 🥂
Congratulations!
Enjoy dinner, but allow me to set the mood for later.
Have fun!
Congratulations as well! Or condolences!
Fantastic! Have a great dinner!
It’s just a great day of good news! Grats!
Congrats!
Congratumalations!
w00h00!!!
Nice!
What the fuck is this?
Look at the ages. We’re going after the only people who care about watching the polls, now?
It’s their way of saying, don’t you even fucking think about doing this in 2024.
Yep. Busting boomers is what Bolsheviks do best!
Based on the timing, I’m going to assume that they want this case still open during the 2024 election. That way they get the suppressive effect at the correct moment even if they ultimately lose.
Yes. Lawfare all the way.
I’m not even sure how that makes a felony? If we got together amd said we are providing alternate electors…it goes nowhere.
Where do they think we are, Brazil?
It’s my 25th wedding anniversary today! Going out to a nice place for dinner.
*toots horn, throws confetti*
NO GLITTER
https://twitter.com/J_CartwrightN0T/status/1681254071557058561/photo/1
/sad trombone
I make the point above because decisions made on narrow grounds are bad for everyone:
* we never get a simple and clear answer to the major problem
* dockets get jammed with minor variants of the same question
Justice Thomas is exactly right: the USSC should feel free to rule at very high and general terms, disposing of whole classes of issues. For libertarians, the question will be: will the USSC defend property and individuals or not, or are they going to let legislatures regulate all conduct and let all bureaucracies police us into the ground. I like a clear answer because all the bullshit is like weak facts: it feeds conspiracy theorists and culture warriors alike (which I would argue are some of the most hurtful segments of society today).
To me it seems lead a horse to water.
Heller: You can carry gun.
Bruen: No really, you can carry a gun.
take this past term: USSC had every opportunity to say that the government can simply and completely proscribe racially-based judgments, action, and decisions in all places and on all terms
but instead they issued at least three rulings with at least two arguably contrary findings: in this case yes, in that case not so much
Bruen makes my point: it simply sets aside the public interests test with the historical tradition test….both of which are fucking stupid. The way to say you can have a gun is to say No really, you can carry a gun, but that is not what they decided.
We never get simple, clear answers because the whole point is to see what the law says, not what the people want said. The way you get simple, clear answers is by using politics. IE, the legislature gets to make laws, and the executive gets to enforce them. And after that, the third branch gets to see if the laws are constitutional.
As a libertarian, I know just how much in the minority I am. But I do want rule of law, not rule of man. Thomas, as much as I admire him, is wrong if he says that.
“They’re doing some real Orwellian stuff in Brazil.”
They just learned it from the US.
Case and point
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1681313523186667520
Titty Tuesday always wins the Gold Cup. It always wins every cup.
https://archive.is/KP7WX
This paragraph makes no sense.
“ The Michigan residents allegedly signed documents in December 2020 falsely claiming to be the rightful state electors pledged to vote for Trump. They tried to present copies of the documents to the Michigan legislature, the U.S. Congress and the National Archives, seeking to put themselves forward as an alternative pro-Trump slate of electors at a meeting of the Electoral College later that month, according to the attorney general’s office. ”
So were they fraudulently pretending to be someone else or were they making themselves available as alternates?
They were supporting Trump. That’ll do, pig.
Entrepreneurial lawfare
Uber must face a lawsuit claiming it should have covered UberEats drivers’ work-related expenses, California’s top court said on Monday, in what could be a major blow to companies in the largest US state and a win for labor advocates.
In a unanimous ruling, the California supreme court said UberEats driver Erik Adolph did not give up his right under state law to sue on behalf of a large group of workers even though he signed an agreement to bring his own work-related legal claims in private arbitration.
Adolph sued Uber in 2019, claiming the company misclassified UberEats drivers as independent contractors rather than employees, who must be reimbursed for work expenses under California law.
A unique California law called the Private Attorney General Act, or Paga, allows workers to sue for employment law violations on behalf of the state and keep one-quarter of any money they win. The rest goes to the state to fund an agency that enforces labor laws.
The California supreme court said nothing in that law bars workers from pursuing claims on their own behalf in arbitration while separately litigating large-scale claims in court.
The decision likely undermines the significance of a 2022 US supreme court ruling involving Viking River Cruises that said companies could force individual Paga claims into arbitration, and could mean that California employers will face more large-scale lawsuits.
Theane Evangelis, a lawyer for Uber, said in a statement that Monday’s ruling conflicts with the Viking River decision and violates a federal law that requires enforcing valid arbitration agreements.
The Guardian obviously thinks this is great news. I’m not so sure. But at least they appear to have laid out the fundamental issue more or less clearly.
It does seem to be a direct contradiction of the prior Supreme Court ruling.
And, of course the war on independent contractors is bullshit, driven by the unions.
Groups including the US Chamber of Commerce, the country’s largest business lobby, filed briefs in Monday’s case warning the California supreme court that a ruling against Uber could encourage workers to file meritless lawsuits and pressure companies to settle them.
But the court said those concerns should be directed at state legislators, who have the power to change the law.
They have the power to change the law, but no incentive whatsoever. And they’ll all sit around Sacramento and read the paper and ask each other where the middle class went.
And either way, arbitration or class action, the lawyers get the jackpot and the workers get diddly.