July 09, 2024
An Asian former Uber driver is asking the Ninth Circuit to overturn a panel's June ruling finding he failed to support his allegations that the ride-hailing giant's rating system is racially biased, saying the court held him to too high of a standard.
June 24, 2024
An Asian man who previously drove for Uber didn't provide enough information in his proposed class action to support his claim that the ride-hailing platform's use of customer ratings when making decisions to drop drivers had a "significant disparate impact" on non-white drivers, the Ninth Circuit said Monday.
January 01, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is battling Tesla in a suit alleging rampant race discrimination at a California factory, state regulators are pressing a caste bias case against Cisco, and the Ninth Circuit is considering reviving lawsuits against Uber and Meta. Here, Law360 looks at five discrimination cases in California that employment lawyers should follow in 2024.
December 07, 2023
An attorney for a proposed class of drivers alleging Uber's ratings system is racially biased told the Ninth Circuit on Thursday that the lower court kept "moving the goalpost" through multiple amended complaints while requiring evidence not required at the pleading stage.
December 01, 2023
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for oral arguments at the Ninth Circuit in a proposed racial discrimination class action against Uber. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
April 04, 2023
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged the Ninth Circuit to reverse the dismissal of an ex-Uber driver's proposed class action alleging the company's rating system is racially biased, arguing that the lower court held his claims to unfair evidentiary standards.