AYALA v. ANTELOPE VALLEY NEWSPAPERS, INC.

No. S206874.

59 Cal.4th 522 (2014)

173 Cal. Rptr. 3d 332

MARIA AYALA et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. ANTELOPE VALLEY NEWSPAPERS, INC., Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

June 30, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Callahan & Blaine, Daniel J. Callahan , Jill A. Thomas , Michael J. Sachs , Kathleen L. Dunham and Scott D. Nelson for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Aaron Kaufmann for California Employment Lawyers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Jocelyn Larkin , Della Barnett , Michael Caeser ; and Fernando Flores for Asian Law Caucus, Centro de La Raza, Equal Rights Advocates, Impact Fund, La Raza Centro Legal, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, National Employment Law Project, Public Justice, P.C., Wage Justice Center, Watsonville Law Center, Western Center on Law and Poverty, Women's Employment Rights Clinic at Golden Gate University of Law and Worksafe as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Perkins Coie, Sue J. Stott , William C. Rava , Jenica D. Mariani and Eric D. Miller for Defendant and Respondent.

Seyfarth Shaw, Camille A. Olson and David D. Kadue for The California Employment Law Council and The California Chamber of Commerce as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

WERDEGAR, J.

Antelope Valley Newspapers, Inc. (Antelope Valley), is the publisher of the Antelope Valley Press, a daily newspaper. To deliver the paper to its subscribers, Antelope Valley contracts with individual carriers. Four carriers, Maria Ayala, Josefina Briseño, Rosa Duran, and Osman Nuñez, contend Antelope Valley illegally treats them as independent contractors,...

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