{"id":18589,"date":"2017-08-10T16:08:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T20:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18589"},"modified":"2017-08-10T16:08:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T20:08:58","slug":"taking-uber-to-small-claims-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/10\/taking-uber-to-small-claims-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Uber to Small-claims Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/08\/how-one-man-hauled-uber-into-small-claims-court-and-won-4000\/\">Joe Mullin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/08\/how-one-man-hauled-uber-into-small-claims-court-and-won-4000\/\">\n<p>The Uber car was squeezed into the narrow Boston street between other cars, and Wilcox had to shimmy out. So he hauled out just the suitcases, telling the driver he&rsquo;d be back in a minute to grab the backpack. But when he reached the curb, the Uber car immediately drove off with his backpack still sitting in the back seat.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>At that point, Wilcox went to the police and filed a report. He had the driver&rsquo;s first name, a picture of him from the Uber app, the car&rsquo;s license plate number, and confirmation of his ride details.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>When Wilcox finally got the police report, it contained a big surprise. Uber had stonewalled Wilcox but emphasized&mdash;in court, in phone conversations, and in public statements&mdash;that it always cooperates with law enforcement. Yet the police report&nbsp;showed that Uber maintained the ride hadn&rsquo;t even taken place [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The investigating police officer made multiple visits to the address on record of the vehicle&rsquo;s owner, but no one had answered. Uber, meanwhile, said the driver hadn&rsquo;t worked for them for two years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/fymhotsauce.rocks\/blogs\/news\/my-uber-driver-robbed-me-so-i-took-uber-to-court-and-won\">Wilcox&rsquo;s blog post<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Mullin: The Uber car was squeezed into the narrow Boston street between other cars, and Wilcox had to shimmy out. So he hauled out just the suitcases, telling the driver he&rsquo;d be back in a minute to grab the backpack. But when he reached the curb, the Uber car immediately drove off with his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,26,209,1441],"class_list":["post-18589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-legal","tag-uber"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18590,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18589\/revisions\/18590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}