(This content was created with the help of AI.) Uber has lost its second consecutive courtroom test over rider safety. A federal jury in Charlotte, NC, on Monday found Uber liable for a 2019 incident, marking its second straight loss in the first of more than 3,000 sexual assault and sexual harassment lawsuits it faces.
The plaintiff, Brianna Mensing, testified that when she was 23, her driver grabbed her upper inner thigh at the end of a late-night ride and asked if he could “keep it with him,” per the New York Times.
Uber’s lawyers attacked her credibility, arguing the ride occurred at the “height of her drug addiction” and emphasizing that the allegation only surfaced through the lawsuit filed three years after the fact…