Uber’s ‘Confusing’ Wording Sinks Nevada Contingency Fee Cap Plan (1)

Uber Technologies Inc. won’t get to ask Nevada voters to cap attorney contingency fees because its petition “is misleading and confusing,” the state’s supreme court ruled Monday.

The language is unclear on whether the cap, proposed at 20% of amounts recovered, applies to all civil lawsuits or just some.

It “thus leaves potential signatories with more questions about the initiative’s effect than it answers,” the high court decided in a unanimous opinion.

The decision is a win for the initiative’s opponents, which previously failed to secure injunctive relief from a trial court. They are led by a group accusing ...