{"id":166951,"date":"2026-11-09T07:26:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T15:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=166951"},"modified":"2026-11-09T07:26:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T15:26:05","slug":"verdict-winner-defending-common-carrier-ruling-uber-is-a-taxi-company-with-an-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/09\/verdict-winner-defending-common-carrier-ruling-uber-is-a-taxi-company-with-an-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdict Winner Defending ‘Common Carrier’ Ruling: Uber Is a ‘Taxi Company With an App’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Uber is asking the Fourth Circuit to overturn a sexual assault verdict based on what it calls a \u201cradical liability theory. Plaintiffs defend the verdict and underlying order, arguing the decision could affect thousands of riders.
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Uber is asking the Fourth Circuit to overturn a sexual assault verdict based on what it calls a \u201cradical liability theory. Plaintiffs defend the verdict and underlying order, arguing the decision could affect thousands of riders.
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Uber is asking the Fourth Circuit to overturn a sexual assault verdict based on what it calls a \u201cradical liability theory. Plaintiffs defend the verdict and underlying order, arguing the decision could affect thousands of riders. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Uber is asking the Fourth Circuit to overturn a sexual assault verdict based on what it calls a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166951","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=166951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166957,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166951\/revisions\/166957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}