Uber Again Wins Race Bias Class Action Dismissal in California

Uber Technologies Inc. drivers who argued the rideshare giant’s star-rating process racially discriminates against its workers again lost their class action bid in a California federal court.

The lawsuit, which cited a new survey of 20,000 drivers, didn’t adequately allege facts to support that the star-rating system has a racially disparate impact, nor that the company intentionally discriminated against the would-be lead plaintiff, said Judge Vince Chhabria of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Monday.

He gave the drivers leave to amend their complaint again because “it is conceivable that a more sophisticated effort at ...