“In this court’s humble view, providing plaintiffs with a proverbial third ‘bite of the apple’ would be futile. A third jury trial would do nothing more than waste precious judicial resources while—in all likelihood—leaving the parties precisely where we began so many years ago,” U.S. District Judge Michael M. Baylson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said following a second hung jury in an employment dispute against Uber.
Following two hung juries and nearly nine years of litigation, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has dismissed an ongoing dispute between former UberBlack drivers and Uber as to whether the Philadelphia-based drivers were misclassified as independent contractors, rather than employees.
In a Tuesday decision, U.S. District Judge Michael M. Baylson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted Uber’s 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 the plaintiff, former UberBlack driver Ali Razak.
