{"id":155394,"date":"2026-06-24T17:48:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/24\/theres-no-petitioning-activity-there-uber-fights-against-dismissal-of-its-rico-case-against-la-firms\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:48:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:48:51","slug":"theres-no-petitioning-activity-there-uber-fights-against-dismissal-of-its-rico-case-against-la-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/24\/theres-no-petitioning-activity-there-uber-fights-against-dismissal-of-its-rico-case-against-la-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"‘There’s No Petitioning Activity There’: Uber Fights Against Dismissal of Its RICO Case Against LA Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a Wednesday hearing, Uber attorney Michael Huston, of Perkins Coie, told U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett at a downtown Los Angeles hearing that the Noerr-Pennington<\/i> doctrine, which protects lawyers under the First Amendment from being sued because they filed lawsuits, did not apply in this case.\"\"<\/p>\n

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At a Wednesday hearing, Uber attorney Michael Huston, of Perkins Coie, told U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett at a downtown Los Angeles hearing that the Noerr-Pennington<\/i> doctrine, which protects lawyers under the First Amendment from being sued because they filed lawsuits, did not apply in this case.\"\"<\/p>\n

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At a Wednesday hearing, Uber attorney Michael Huston, of Perkins Coie, told U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett at a downtown Los Angeles hearing that the Noerr-Pennington doctrine, which protects lawyers under the First Amendment from being sued because they filed lawsuits, did not apply in this case. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At a Wednesday hearing, Uber attorney […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155395,"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-155394","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\/2026\/06\/legal-news-ZNYgk4.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155394","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=155394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}