Ride-hailing giant Lyft agreed Thursday to pay $272.5 million to settle a lawsuit challenging its classification of drivers in California as contractors, rather than employees entitled to minimum wages, unemployment insurance and other benefits. But the settlement — most of which would be paid to drivers who worked for Lyft between April 2016 and December 2020 — doesn’t require Lyft to treat its current drivers as employees. 

(Subscription required) California has enacted first-in-the-nation legislation to regulate attorneys’ use of generative artificial intelligence tools in their work, banning them from delegating the practice of law to AI and restricting their entry of confidential or personal information into AI tools.

(Subscription required) AB 1776 gives state prosecutors new authority to pursue anticompetitive conduct by dominant companies, widening California's divergence from federal antitrust law despite significant concessions to business groups.

(Subscription required) An en banc panel considering photographer Jeffrey Sedlik's copyright case against tattoo artist Kat Von D questioned whether the circuit's longstanding "intrinsic" test is too subjective to permit meaningful appellate review.