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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Once I was trying to get a case transferred from E DT Tx to Mi, back when EDT was rocket docket home for all patent cases. Local sent me a brief Apple had filed on very similar facts. I pretty much copied it. It was poetry, except you know how no one pays for poetry? Apple paid a lot, I’m sure.
Do I need to confess to someone besides you guys?
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I represented a friend of a friend in an unemployment claim appeal as a favor about a year ago. Typically takes a couple minutes at some silly admin hearing to get a bad denial reversed.
Not this time. Lyft filed a brief on why the guy, who'd driven for Lyft for a few weeks, was an independent contractor and not an employee. The brief was 20 pages long. I had no claim against Lyft because they were indeed not an employer. But I kept the brief because it was damn well written, and state of the art up to a few months before the hearing.
I guarantee that brief, and a similar one authored by Uber, are being copied near verbatim by every employment lawyer in the state who runs into the issue of independent contractor vs. employee.
