Uber and Lyft get reprieve from court, won't shut down in California for now

UPDATE: Thursday afternoon, a California appeals court granted Uber and Lyft an emergency order delaying another order that would have forced them to reclassify their drivers as employees by Friday. The legal decision means the two companies won't shut down service in the state at the end of day Thursday as they had previously threatened to do. But they still do have a deadline to reclassify the drivers hanging over their heads, at least for now. The story below was initially published before th