People v. Maplebear Inc.
Opinion
Opinion
Filed 5/18/
CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION
COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION ONE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
THE PEOPLE, D079209
Plaintiff and Respondent,
v. (Super. Ct. No. 37-2019- 00048731-CU-MC-CTL)
MAPLEBEAR INC.,
Defendant and Appellant.
APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of San Diego County, Timothy B. Taylor, Judge. Affirmed. Keker, Van Nest & Peters, Rachael E. Meny, Benjamin Berkowitz, Ryan K. Wong, Julia L. Allen, Taylor L. Reeves, and Erica S. Miranda for Defendant and Appellant. Mara W. Elliot, City Attorney, Mark Ankcorn, Chief Deputy City Attorney, and Kevin B. King, Deputy City Attorney, for Plaintiff and Respondent. The San Diego City Attorney brought an enforcement action under the Unfair Competition Law, Business and Professions Code sections 17200, et seq. (UCL), on behalf of the People of the State of California against Maplebear Inc. DBA Instacart (Instacart). In their complaint, the People alleged that Instacart unlawfully misclassified its employees as independent contractors in order to deny workers employee protections, harming its alleged employees and the public at…