Uber ordered to pay $1.1 million to blind passenger who was denied rides 14 separate times
Uber ordered to pay $1.1 million to blind passenger who was denied rides 14 separate times
Tyler SonnemakerApr 2, 2021, 19:53 IST
A blind passenger gets into an Uber in Denver, Colorado (Lisa Irving not pictured).RJ Sangosti/Getty Images
Uber drivers denied Lisa Irving rides 14 times because of her blindness and guide dog, Bernie.
Uber unsuccessfully argued it wasn t responsible because its drivers are contractors.
An independent arbitrator on Thursday ordered Uber to pay $1.1 million to a blind passenger for illegally discriminating against her after its drivers refused her rides on 14 occasions.
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Lisa Irving, who is blind, said Uber drivers refused to give her rides because they didn’t want her service dog, Bernie, in their cars.Courtesy Lisa Irving
Bernie, a Labrador retriever, trained for two years at Guiding Eyes for the Blind to be a service animal. “He was clean, well behaved, very quiet and always under my control,” said his owner, Lisa Irving of Mill Valley, who is legally blind.
Yet when Irving would summon an Uber, she said drivers frequently balked at letting Bernie in their cars, even as she explained that the Americans with Disabilities Act entitled her service animal to accompany her. Often the drivers would leave her stranded, needing to find another ride. Sometimes she ended up late to doctors’ appointments or to her work as a liaison to people with mental health challenges. She had a birthday ce
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NEW PHILADELPHIA Members of the local arts community are working to convert a walkway between two buildings in downtown New Philadelphia into Artagain Alley, an outdoor gallery space. The overall goal with this is an outdoor gallery space where people can feel welcome and invited to come and gather in a space where it is creatively motivated and brings people together so they can enjoy the company of each other, support local businesses and be able to see and recognize those artists that are so important in our community, said Wilma Mullet, executive director of Tuscarawas Arts Partnership.
The partnership is sponsoring the project along with Alley Cats Marketplace and Museum Acrylics.