Champagne bottles popped earlier than expected on New Year’s Eve when Judge Roger T. Benitez of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the State of California from enforcing Assembly Bill No. 5 (“AB5”) against any motor carriers operating in the state. Enforcement under AB5 was to begin on the legislation’s effective date of January 1, 2020.
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