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Note: Some of the sites we link to may limit the number of stories you can access without subscribing. That was a quick recap, but thereвЂ™s a lot more in our full story.ДЄnd now, hereвЂ™s whatвЂ™s happening across California: After consideration by the state court of appeals, it will eventually be decided by the California Supreme Court, she said, adding that the process could take a year. But UC Berkeley law scholar Catherine Fisk, who filed an amicus brief in the case on behalf of the plaintiffs, said the companies could win a stay on the judgeвЂ™s ruling in the next two weeks. Since a ballot initiative cannot be amended after it is passed by voters, any unconstitutional provision renders it unenforceable.

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Geoff Vetter, a spokesman for the Protect App-Based Drivers & Services coalition, formed by the companies to lead the pro-Proposition 22 campaign last year, called the decision вЂњoutrageousвЂќ and вЂњan affront to the overwhelming majority of California voters who passed Prop. вЂњThis ruling ignores the will of the overwhelming majority of California voters and defies both logic and the law,вЂќ said Uber spokesperson Noah Edwardsen. Ride-hailing company Uber vowed to appeal. That prohibition вЂњappears only to protect the economic interests of the network companies in having a divided, un-unionized workforce, which is not a stated goal of the legislation,вЂќ Roesch said. Proposition 22 claims to protect Californians who choose to work as independent contractors, but it also вЂњobliquely and indirectlyвЂќ prevents them from bargaining collectively, the decision said. Also, by adding language aimed at preventing drivers from unionizing, the ballot measure also violates a constitutional provision that requires laws and initiatives to be limited to a single subject, Roesch ruled. 22 infringes on the power the state Constitution explicitly granted to the California Legislature to regulate compensation for workersвЂ™ injuries. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch determined that Prop.

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