August 03, 2020
New York federal judge Jed S. Rakoff on Monday upheld Uber's arbitration win in a proposed antitrust class action challenging its pricing practices, finding the arbitrator's "perhaps inappropriate" joke about needing security if he ruled against the ride-hailing giant did not show bias.
July 30, 2020
An arbitrator was likely joking about being afraid of Uber before he tossed price-fixing claims, Manhattan U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff said Thursday, in a sign that he may be leaning toward upholding an arbitration win for the ride-hailing giant in an antitrust challenge to its pricing practices.
June 22, 2020
An Uber customer has challenged in New York federal court the ride-hailing giant's contention that an arbitrator was just joking about tossing a price-fixing suit to placate Uber, saying his remark clearly showed bias.
June 15, 2020
An arbitrator was only kidding when he told an Uber customer that fear of the company forced his hand when tossing a complaint that the ride-sharing giant rigged prices, Uber told a New York judge over the weekend.
March 05, 2018
U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff said Monday that in light of the Second Circuit's decision to overturn his 2016 findings to the contrary, he had no choice in November but to order arbitration between Uber Technologies Inc. and its ex-CEO and a customer in a class action over the alleged fixing of ride prices.
November 28, 2017
U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff has ordered arbitration between Uber Technologies Inc. and its ex-CEO and a customer in a class action over the alleged fixing of ride prices by the company, enforcing an online consumer arbitration agreement he once referred to as "legal fiction."
November 07, 2017
Uber Technologies Inc. told a New York federal court on Monday that the customer accusing the ride-hailing service of price-fixing can't raise the issue of his phone's keypad obscuring a hyperlink to the terms of service at this point in the case because he should have known about it all along.
November 03, 2017
An Uber customer accusing the ride-hailing company of fixing prices told a New York federal court Wednesday that new evidence about default smartphone settings proves he likely didn't see a hyperlink to terms that forced him into arbitration, urging the judge to allow further fact-finding on the issue.
August 26, 2016
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff gave Uber its requested stay Friday in a proposed class action alleging the company and its CEO fixed ride prices, saying the issue of whether consumers can consent to arbitration agreements simply by continuing to use a site or app needs further Second Circuit review.
August 22, 2016
A proposed class of Uber riders on Friday said the company can't pause antitrust claims to appeal the denial of arbitration in a lawsuit in New York federal court over an alleged price-fixing scheme with drivers, saying Uber is misinterpreting multiple federal court rulings to make its case.