Uber Must Face Wheelchair Users’ Disability Discrimination Suit

Two New Orleans residents can sue Uber Technologies Inc. for not providing its wheelchair-accessible ride-sharing option uberWAV in their city, even though they never downloaded or used the company’s app, the Ninth Circuit said Monday.

Stephen Namisnak has muscular dystrophy and Francis Falls is paraplegic from a spinal cord injury. They sued Uber for discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Because the Uber app requires users to sign an arbitration agreement, a third plaintiff who did use the app was forced into arbitration. But Namisnak and Falls never downloaded the app.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth ...