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Appeals court grants a stay on injunction, after Lyft announces rideshare operations would be suspended in California at 11:59 PM tonight
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- Title
- Rideshare operations are being suspended in California
- Authors
- Lyft, Inc.
- Word count
- 472 words
UPDATE: A judge has issued an emergency stay halting enforcement temporarily.
Oh no! Unless we let Lyft exploit workers, they won't let those workers drive us around!
How terrible.
Sarcasm aside, this is a blatant ploy to attempt to push their customers into voting for Prop 22 in order to get their service back. It'll be interesting to see if Uber backs their play and also suspends service, or simply absorbs their market share.
In The Verge's article about this, they say that Uber had previously said they would stop service too, but it hasn't been officially confirmed and a spokesperson wouldn't commit to it today (yet?):
An appeals court has granted a stay on the injunction now, so they'll be able to continue operating.
Not sure if we should update the overall topic link/title, or if it would be better to have a separate submission or anything. That ruling is very recent so there doesn't seem to be much info out there yet.
I would add a quick note that it’s temporarily not suspended instead of a whole new post splitting the discussion
Apparently it's too late for me to edit anything. Why is that?
Users can only edit the titles of their posts for the first 5 minutes by default (to fix typos and similar), but some users have the ability to edit at any time. I updated the title, but I'll give you that permission as well.
I know this is a post from Lyft, but this got a laugh out of me
Under Prop 22, a bunch of hypothetical side effects that lyft thinks will happen and none of the actual policy.
In fact, after reading the whole thing, it never actually mentions what Prop 22 does.
They link to this website which says a little more and links to the proposition itself.
But I linked to ballotpedia below because I thought it was a better summary.
Here's a description of Prop 22 which is on the ballot in November.
This page (by a company I'm not familiar with) seems to show some voter support, but it's early: