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Torts/Personal Injury

May 30, 2025

Federal judge orders Uber accusers to disclose post-assault rideshare use

The ruling is part of a broader discovery dispute as bellwether trials approach in litigation involving over 2,000 personal injury claims against Uber.

Federal judge orders Uber accusers to disclose post-assault rideshare use
U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa J. Cisneros

The bellwether plaintiffs in the sexual assault multidistrict litigation against Uber Technologies, Inc. must disclose information about their use of other rideshare services since their alleged assaults by Uber drivers, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled Thursday.

Uber's attorneys argued that they needed this information to cut into the plaintiffs' damages claim because the plaintiffs intend to argue that their alleged assaults have caused them to develop a "dee...

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