Wake Up Call: Gibson Dunn Scores Big Win for Uber in Fight With Drivers

• A San Francisco federal appeals court handed Uber a major win yesterday in one of the gig economy’s most closely watched labor fights. The court barred hundreds of thousands of Uber drivers from suing as a group for better pay and benefits, in finding that they must arbitrate their claims against the company individually. Uber was represented by a Gibson Dunn team in the case.

• Plaintiffs’ lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan, of Lichten & Liss-Riordan, said the decision was not unexpected in the wake of the U.S Supreme Court’s May ruling that employers can force workers to use individual arbitration instead of class-action lawsuits. Nevertheless, she vowed ...