Trump Lawyer Sticks Uber With $91 Million Arbitration Bill for 'Reverse Bias' Claims
- Uber could pay $91 million to arbitrate ‘reverse bias’ claims
- N.Y. court said Uber was bound by its own arbitration clause
William Consovoy leaves the federal courthouse in Washington, in July 2019.
Photographer: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
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Uber Technologies Inc.’s insistence on arbitrating customer disputes may have backfired in the face of a conservative campaign challenging the company’s move to boost Black-owned businesses after George Floyd’s murder.
The firm of William Consovoy, a lawyer best-known for representing former President Donald Trump, used social media to enlist customers who claimed Uber Eats’s 2020 waiver of delivery fees for Black-owned restaurants constituted “unlawful reverse discrimination” against those ordering from other businesses and ultimately filed more than 31,000 individual demands for arbitration.