{"id":132211,"date":"2025-08-28T13:09:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/28\/7th-circuit-strikes-ubers-attempts-to-arbitrate-drivers-independent-contract-suit\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T13:09:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:09:44","slug":"7th-circuit-strikes-ubers-attempts-to-arbitrate-drivers-independent-contract-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/28\/7th-circuit-strikes-ubers-attempts-to-arbitrate-drivers-independent-contract-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"7th Circuit Strikes Uber’s Attempts to Arbitrate Driver’s Independent Contract Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The state court decided that Zurek’s agreement to arbitrate in 2020 did not apply to a claim that arose during the period governed by the 2022 [Platform Access Agreement] PAA. Instead, such a claim was governed solely by the 2022 arbitration provision, which was the subject of Zurek’s 2022 opt-out. That was the exact issue before the district court,” Lee said,<\/p>\n

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“The state court decided that Zurek’s agreement to arbitrate in 2020 did not apply to a claim that arose during the period governed by the 2022 [Platform Access Agreement] PAA. Instead, such a claim was governed solely by the 2022 arbitration provision, which was the subject of Zurek’s 2022 opt-out. That was the exact issue before the district court,” Lee said,<\/p>\n

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“The state court decided that Zurek’s agreement to arbitrate in 2020 did not apply to a claim that arose during the period governed by the 2022 [Platform Access Agreement] PAA. Instead, such a claim was governed solely by the 2022 arbitration provision, which was the subject of Zurek’s 2022 opt-out. That was the exact issue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/legal-news-9Jy6eo.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}