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- In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles federal court, Uber alleged “unscrupulous personal injury attorneys" had conspired with medical providers to create and submit artificially inflated medical bills in a kickback scheme. Read the complaint.
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"As this lawsuit shows, we won’t hesitate to act when we uncover misconduct on our platform," said Adam Blinick, who leads Uber’s state and local public policy team for the U.S. and Canada.
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In a separate case, Uber last week asked a U.S. judge to block lawyer Bret Stanley from allegedly using and sharing confidential corporate information from lawsuits involving passengers who claimed they were sexually assaulted by drivers. Uber accused Stanley of misusing internal policy materials in connection with other lawsuits he is pursuing over vehicle crashes. Stanley has denied breaching a protective order and said he would address the claims in court this week. Read the filing.
- The company, which denied any wrongdoing in the lawsuits, said it was "facing the risk of competitive harm from the repeated improper disclosure" of protected business materials.
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Uber’s legal battles with plaintiffs' lawyers date back years, including rulings barring the company from using information on a passenger bringing a price-fixing lawsuit and rejecting its efforts to cap lawyer fees.
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Uber is also a plaintiff in at least two other lawsuits filed this year in federal courts in New York and Florida, accusing attorneys and firms of personal-injury related fraud. Read the company’s lawsuit against personal injury firm Law Group of South Florida.
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Find out more in this week’s Billable Hours.
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The 11th Circuit will hear an appeal from a Georgia attorney who accuses the state bar of discriminating against Black lawyers in its disciplinary process. The lawyer argues the lower court erred when it found that it didn’t have jurisdiction in the case. Read the brief.
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That’s how much a Venezuelan man is seeking from the U.S. government for sending him to El Salvador's most notorious prison, a new legal strategy that could be duplicated by other men who say they were falsely accused of gang membership by the Trump administration. Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, 27, filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, contending that federal government employees wrongfully removed him from the country without cause or due process. Read more here.
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"I will certainly be assessing whether government counsel's conduct and veracity to the court warrant a referral to state bars or our grievance committee, which determines lawyers' fitness to practice in our court."
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—Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in D.C. during a hearing in the Venezuela deportations case on Thursday, saying that he may initiate disciplinary proceedings against DOJ lawyers. Boasberg said that a recent whistleblower complaint has only strengthened the argument that Trump administration officials engaged in criminal contempt of court in March by failing to turn around deportation flights. Read more here.
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