Fernando Ruiz v. Affinity Logistics Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• finding right to control under California law where a delivery company controlled “‘every exquisite detail’ of the drivers’ appearance, including the ‘color of their socks’ and ‘the style of their hair’”
• reversing district court and finding delivery drivers were employees as a matter of law
• “[TJhe parties’ mutual termination provision is consistent with either an employer-employee or independent contractor relationship.”
• “Entitlement to the let- ter, without actual receipt of it, is sufficient to support federal jurisdiction.”
• where defendant did dictate such detail about appearance, 24 that fact favored finding employee status
• defendant exercised control of detail of drivers' work by requiring them to wear uniforms and prohibiting them from wearing earrings, displaying tattoos, or having certain facial hair

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).