Uber’s Terms of Use Fails to Split Up Mass Sexual Assault Suits

Uber Technologies Inc. failed to wield the language of the rideshare app’s terms of use to break up hundreds of sexual assault lawsuits from passengers consolidated in one San Francisco federal court.

Judge Charles R. Breyer on Monday said the terms of use agreement specifying that passengers can’t participate in a “coordinated” or “consolidated” legal action against the company would “nullify the judiciary’s ability to manage litigation currently pending in the federal courts.”

Breyer, writing for the US District Court for the Northern District of California, said that clause in the agreement “substantially interferes with the public interests that Congress ...