Posted on 04/24/2022 3:18:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Uber's decision to waive delivery fees from black-owned restaurants during the George Floyd riots could cost the company $91 million.
A New York appeals court ruled this week that the ride-share giant must pay the costs to the American Arbitration Association (AAA), which is handling 31,000 claims against the race-based promotion, which users say violated civil rights law.
Uber's terms of use provide that disputes with the company will be settled in arbitration administered by the AAA. The conservative litigation boutique Consovoy McCarthy PLLC under that provision filed demands against the company on behalf of thousands of customers.
Roberta Kaplan, the Democrat superlawyer and inaugural winner of the Washington Free Beacon‘s Bill Clinton Award for Feminist Achievement, is representing Uber. Kaplan resigned in disgrace from the feminist group Time's Up following revelations that she helped ex-governor Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.) smear female aides who accused him of sexual misconduct.
Uber accused Consovoy McCarthy of masterminding an "extortionate scheme" to punish the company for its woke activism.
In a complaint filed in New York state court, the ride-share giant said the firm is weaponizing a new California law that imposes steep penalties on parties who stiff arbitrators like AAA the fees they're owed. That law says parties who fail to pay arbiter costs lose the arbitration by default and face fines and contempt orders. Uber is subject to the law because it's based in San Francisco.
By Uber's telling, the firm's idea was to swamp the company with arbitration demands, putting them on the hook for a sky-high bill from the AAA. Under the California law, Uber must then pay the $91 million invoice or face defeat by default and other consequences.
"It is a ransom orchestrated by politically motivated lawyers, who are manipulating the arbitral process to prop up baseless...
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Woke, broke.
I’m sure Uber would do this for white owned businesses …..
heh.
This is what racism actually is. Creates hatred between people based on arbitrary assessments of skin shade. Ridiculous.
President Trump was right when he said:
“Everything woke turns to shit.”
2.3% commits greater than 50% of violent crime, but I’m supposed to care about some black felon.
Suck it Uber.
Living things prefer the company of their own kind. Much inanimate stuff, too. But not humans.
Excepting that I do, you too maybe, but no one else.
In a complaint filed in New York state court, the ride-share giant said the firm is weaponizing a new California law that imposes steep penalties on parties who stiff arbitrators like AAA the fees they're owed
I would bet that that law was enacted to allow leftist groups to bully companies and "right wingers" with endless arbitration. Rule #4 for radicals: Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
They are learning what Letter of The Law means.
>> This is what racism actually is.
+1
Awwwwwwwww! 2 bad. Anyone see the exon-mobil release? No more glbtqrpxyzu(gilburts for short) or $blm flags flyinf at corporate offices. Stay out of political free-for-alls. Too bad their gas is out of my price point.
Excepting that I do, you too maybe, but no one else.
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The entire world is nuts friend, except you and me and sometimes I wonder about you.
This is blatantly racist and despicable behavior. They can all go burn in hell.
Actually, this very similar to senior citizens discounts.
Special pricing for special people. All I would like to see is honesty. The lowest price is the actual advertised sales price. Members of non-special groups are then charged a surcharge of an advertised dollar amount or percentage.
Special people can feel good knowing they are paying the regular price, non-special people can suck it up.
Bkmk
I’m starting to wonder about both of you!
;) 5th MEB
Better have another go at courting the Chinese. Give Hunter a call—he’ll hook you up with the Big Guy’s handlers in the CCP.
On the other, honest black entrepreneurship needs to be encouraged. A disproportionate number of black people are employed in non business ventures and more in business would be a good thing to wean more of them off the government teat.
Did it ever occur to these leftists that they’re the racists?
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