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Monday, August 02, 2021

Capriole v. Uber Technologies

Uber drivers, as a nationwide class of workers, are not engaged in foreign or interstate commerce and are therefore not exempt from arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act. Where the plaintiffs’ claims and requested injunctive relief were arbitrable by the terms of an arbitration agreement and the plaintiffs’ requested injunctive relief would have upended the status quo rather than maintained it, a district court properly addressed the motion to compel arbitration first prior to adjudicating the preliminary injunction motion. A proposed injunction against Uber’s current driver classification as independent contractors was not one for public injunctive relief

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