SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has rejected Uber’s bid to send a lawsuit into arbitration alleging that the company cheated employees out of stock options. But the case will still be put on hold in light of a looming U.S. Supreme Court battle over the legality class action waivers.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley of the Northern District of California on Thursday ruled that the arbitration agreement between Uber Technologies Inc. and the software engineer who brought the proposed class action last December, Lenza McElrath, is unenforceable under the law.
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