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DYNAMEX OPERATIONS WEST, INC. v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY CASE ANALYSIS - (160 Points total)

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Please draft a thorough case analysis of this landmark employment law case. In the 2018 California Supreme Court decision upended decades of prior established law regarding the classification of employees versus independent contractors. The effects of this ruling changed the landscape of employment law and millions of workers and business owners. Whether a worker is classified as an employee or an independent contractor has drastically different consequences for a business and effects so many areas of law, tax and accounting.

Please read this case and draft a case analysis. Organize your case analysis into the following categories (IRAC):

· FACTS: What are the pertinent facts of the case? These are the specific facts that are going to be analyzed according to the relevant rules to come up with the conclusion.

· PROCEDURAL HISTORY: How did the case get all the way to the California Supreme Court? What courts decided on the issue beforehand? What were their rulings?

· ISSUE: Identify the issues at hand. There can be multiple issues in a case, but usually there is one main issue that is being decided. Try to identify this issue and boil it down to one concise sentence.

· RULE: List all the relevant rules of law that the court uses in its discussion of the case.

· ANALYSIS: Explain how the court applied the rules to the facts of the case. How did the court come to its final decision? This will be the most in-depth section.

· CONCLUSION: What was the final decision of the court. This can be a short statement simply stating their decision.

Your case analysis should be at least 3 pages and at most 6 pages single spaced. The Facts and Analysis portions of the case analysis are the most heavily weighted in grading and should have the most information and effort.

Review the rubric below to learn how the assignment will be graded:

Rubric

·   Case Analysis Rubric