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This might give businesses the ammo they need to require the employees to come into the office.

This law has been in effect for years.

It's been in effect for office work. CA is one of the few states expanding this to Remote work (according to the article).

No, the article is pointing out that it's always applied to remote work, which was specifically clarified with additional laws in 2022.

According to the judge which was news to Amazon. Otherwise they wouldn't have tried to dismiss.

They are required to pay all the necessary expenses in the office too.

Yes, but they have established processes, cost structures and real estate commitments to support that.