Antelope Valley Press v. Poizner

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that carriers are employees, notwithstanding contract stating that they are independent contractors
• noting lack of evidence that carriers “hold themselves out as being an independent delivery service that happens to have AVP as one of its customers”
• using manners and means approach to evaluate the right to control
• describing the traditional “notion [of] an independent contractor [as] someone hired to achieve a specific result that is attainable within a finite period of time, such as plumbing work, tax service, or the creation of a work of art for a building’s lobby”
• termination with thirty-day notice requirement “clearly” gives employer the right to discharge at-will without cause
• termination with thirty-day notice requirement \clearly\ gives employer the right to discharge at-will without cause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).