An attorney for the ride-sharing tech company Uber urged the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday to focus its consideration of an unemployment eligibility case on the specific meaning of “self-employment,” not an assessment of emerging labor economics.

The case—captioned Lowman v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review—presents the justices with their first opportunity to evaluate whether the legal view of unemployment eligibility should evolve as “gig” jobs proliferate.

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