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Labor/Employment

Jul. 11, 2015

Uber outlines defense against class certification in misclassification dispute

New lawyer Theodore J. Boutrous laid out Wednesday why driver claims against the rideshare company should not be treated on a classwide basis.


By Matthew Blake


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Asserting that "many, if not most, proposed class members" do not want to be categorized
as employees, Uber Technologies Inc.'s newly hired lawyer Theodore J. Boutrous filed
a motion Wednesday opposing class certification of 160,000 California-based Uber drivers
in a landmark misclassification suit.


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