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Uber is asking higher courts to review a Charlotte jury\u2019s verdict that the company must pay a North Carolina woman $5,000 after her driver assaulted her<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n

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During a trial in the U.S. District Court for the Western District for North Carolina last month, Brianna Mensing testified that during her second ever ride with Uber, her driver asked her to sit in the passenger seat and grabbed her upper inner thigh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Uber argued she had \u201czero proof\u201d of the assault and hinged its defense on Mensing\u2019s reliability. The time of the assault, March 2019, was near the peak of her struggle with drug addiction, Uber\u2019s attorneys said.<\/p>\n

But the jury believed her and found that, because Uber is liable for the assault, they must pay her $5,000. U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer told jury members that North Carolina law makes Uber responsible for any assault that happens during rides.<\/p>\n

Uber on May 19 appealed the jury\u2019s decision to the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and told The Charlotte Observer in a statement that \u201cthe verdict was the product of multiple legal errors.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A safety spokesperson for the company said the judge\u2019s conclusion that Uber is liable for any rider assaults in North Carolina \u201cis inconsistent with longstanding North Carolina law\u201d and that the verdict \u201cwas the product of multiple evidentiary errors that gave the jury a one-sided view of the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n

William Smith, an attorney for Mensing, previously told the Observer that \u201cUber comes into court and tries to trash victims, but nine people sitting on the jury believed her.\u201d Mensing\u2019s attorneys did not respond to a request for comment on Uber\u2019s appeal.<\/p>\n

Mensing\u2019s case is part of a multidistrict litigation filed by passengers who say Uber drivers assaulted or harassed them. Breyer, a Northern California judge, presides over that larger case. In Arizona earlier this year, a jury awarded $8.5 million in damages<\/a> to a plaintiff who said her Uber driver raped her.<\/p>\n

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Uber has said it intends to appeal that case, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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