January 17, 2025
Instacart has joined Uber's fight against Seattle's new app-based worker account deactivation rules, with both companies urging the judge who refused to temporarily block the law to grant a stay while the companies appeal to the Ninth Circuit.
January 02, 2025
A Washington federal judge denied Uber's bid to temporarily bar the city of Seattle from enforcing new app-based worker account deactivation rules against it, finding the day before the challenged ordinance took effect that the company is unlikely to succeed in its claims of a First Amendment violation.
December 19, 2024
A Seattle ordinance aimed at preventing app-based workers from being unfairly deactivated from apps they use poses "grave constitutional problems," Uber alleged in a suit filed Wednesday in Washington federal court, saying the local law forces the transportation company to express views inconsistent with how it approaches privacy and safety.