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• MDL Judge Updated on Uber Driver Sex Assault Lawsuit Status as Claims Top 2,800

  June 6, 2025

  Irvin Jackson

  More than 2,800 Uber sexual assault lawsuits have been filed to date, as the parties continue to prepare the first wave of bellwether cases for early trial dates.

• Surge of Child Sex Abuse Lawsuits Overload Baltimore Court

  June 3, 2025

  Irvin Jackson

  Facing more than 1,250 child sexual abuse lawsuits, a Baltimore judge has placed litigation stemming from the Maryland Child Victims Act on hold while the court determines how to handle the deluge of claims.

• Uber Seeks To Transfer MDL Sexual Assault Lawsuits to Districts Where Attacks Occurred for Trial

  May 23, 2025

  Irvin Jackson

  The MDL judge is being asked to transfer all Uber sexual assault lawsuits being prepared for early bellwether trials back to their originating states to go before local juries over claims the company failed to protect passengers from predatory drivers.

• MDL Judge Selects 6 Uber Driver Assault Lawsuits for First Wave of Bellwether Trials

  May 7, 2025

  Irvin Jackson

  Six Uber sexual assault lawsuits have been selected by a federal judge to serve as the first wave of bellwether trials, to test how juries may respond to evidence that will be repeated throughout thousands of similar claims.

• Uber Lawsuit Over Driver Sexually Assaulting Passenger To Go Before Jury in December 2025

  April 28, 2025

  Irvin Jackson

  A federal judge has announced that he will hold five "waves" of Uber lawsuit bellwether trials, with the first claim to go before juries in December.

• Child Sexual Abuse Survivors To Receive $150M in Payouts From Buffalo Diocese

  April 24, 2025

  Irvin Jackson

  The Buffalo Diocese has declared it will pay $150 million to child sexual abuse survivors as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.

• JPML Declines to Consolidate Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Sexual Assault Lawsuits

  April 10, 2025

  Irvin Jackson

  A panel of federal judges has decided that all child sexual abuse lawsuits against the Mormon church will proceed as individual claims, without centralized discovery or pretrial proceedings, since each of the cases are too varied to benefit from consolidation.

• Judge Urged To Consolidate Multiple Uber Sexual Assault Lawsuits for First Bellwether Trial

  April 9, 2025

  Irvin Jackson

  A federal judge has been asked by survivors of Uber sexual assaults to have the first bellwether trial involve multiple plaintiffs, to help gauge how juries may respond to evidence that will be repeated throughout more than 1,900 similar claims.

• Damage Caps on Maryland Child Victims Act Lawsuits Sought As State Faces 4,500 Sexual Abuse Claims

  April 4, 2025

  Irvin Jackson

  With the state of Maryland facing at least 4,500 child sexual abuse lawsuits, some lawmakers are now attempting to pass legislation that would cap the amount of damages survivors can recover.

• Uber Sex Abuse Lawsuits Selected for Bellwether Discovery and Test Trials in MDL

  February 26, 2025

  Irvin Jackson

  Parties involved in Uber sex abuse lawsuits have proposed 20 cases that could serve as potential bellwether lawsuits, each charging the rideshare service with failing to protect passengers from sexual assaults by drivers.