{"id":2090,"date":"2024-07-31T22:21:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T22:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-dismisses-uber-drivers-dispute-over-independent-contractor-status\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T22:21:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T22:21:45","slug":"judge-dismisses-uber-drivers-dispute-over-independent-contractor-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-dismisses-uber-drivers-dispute-over-independent-contractor-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Dismisses Uber Drivers&#8217; Dispute Over Independent Contractor Status"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Following two hung juries and nearly nine years of litigation, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has dismissed\u00a0an ongoing dispute between former UberBlack drivers and Uber as to whether the Philadelphia-based drivers were misclassified as independent contractors, rather than employees.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1IJPhYTW3ef73ik176LqcEZRp2yK-cv2u\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tuesday decision<\/a>, U.S. District Judge Michael M. Baylson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted Uber\u2019s motion for mistrial following the most recent trial that started June 10 and left the jury deadlocked after several days of deliberation. Baylson denied motions for relief filed by\u00a0the plaintiff, former UberBlack driver Ali Razak.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following two hung juries and nearly nine years of litigation, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has dismissed\u00a0an ongoing dispute between former UberBlack drivers and Uber as to whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1699,998,323,1697,1698,423,1575,1696],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-contractor","tag-dismisses","tag-dispute","tag-drivers","tag-independent","tag-judge","tag-status","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}