Uber sued for discriminating against people with disabilities, US court filing shows

Published on 12/09/2025 - 10:40 GMT+2

The US Department of Justice sued Uber connected Thursday, accusing nan ride-hailing app of discriminating against group pinch beingness disabilities. 

“Despite nan value of its services to group pinch disabilities, Uber denies group pinch disabilities afloat and adjacent enjoyment of its services successful respective captious ways,” publication nan complaint, which several media outlets reported was revenge successful a national tribunal successful San Francisco.

It said that drivers “routinely refuse” to service group pinch disabilities, including those pinch work animals aliases stowable wheelchairs. 

It besides alleged that Uber and its drivers enforce cleaning fees for work animals and cancellation fees to riders who are denied service.

The title says drivers “insult and demean group pinch disabilities aliases inquire them inappropriate questions”. 

“We person a clear zero-tolerance argumentation for confirmed work denials, and we fundamentally disagree pinch nan DOJ’s allegation,” Uber said successful a statement, quoted by CNBC.

It is not nan first clip that Uber has been successful problem complete disablement issues. 

In 2022, it agreed to salary $2.2 cardinal (€1.9 million) to settee claims brought by nan US authorities that its hold clip fees discriminated against abnormal customers. 

Meanwhile, successful nan United Kingdom, array tennis Paralympic medallist Jack Hunter-Spivey said connected societal media successful 2021 that Uber and different taxi drivers usually drove disconnected erstwhile they saw he utilized a wheelchair.