Uber to Pay Antitrust Plaintiff for P.I.’s Snooping Tactics

By Erik Larson, Bloomberg News

Uber Technologies Inc. agreed to pay the legal fees of a customer who discovered that the transportation company’s outside private investigator lied to his friends and colleagues in an effort to dig up dirt on him and his lawyer in an antitrust lawsuit.

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in New York blasted Uber over the tactics used by the private eye as the company sought negative information about Connecticut customer Spencer Meyer to use in court. Meyer sued Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick last year alleging the company’s practice of raising prices during periods of high ...