California is not where I think of for the most "liberal" state at all, unless you mean "the most Nancy Pelosi-electing neoliberal" state. But then, it's also t

California is not where I think of for the most "liberal" state at all, unless you mean "the most Nancy Pelosi-electing neoliberal" state. But then, it's also the state that gave us the scourge-on-US-history named Reagan, so what's your point? WA, OR, CO, hell, maybe even MN, are all states that - just off the top of my head - I'd classify as far more progressive than CA, and particularly, less beholden to Silicon Valley investor money. WA was (alongside CO) the first state in the country to legalize cannabis, Seattle as a city has some of the strongest renter protections in the country behind NYC and Chicago (admittedly this is a ridiculously low bar, "literally any rights at all" is better than 99.99999% of the country), pay transparency even went into effect here before CA. I wouldn't assume that what a CA court thinks of Uber drivers is necessarily what a WA court will.