FEDERAL COURT, May 20 - In a Federal
case against Uber for its role in sexual assault by its
personnel, Uber this month in a single hour got 14
so-called vendors, including news sites, to remove from
public view a document it had filed on PACER.
Uber
made its demands without any court order whatsoever. As recounted
by its outside law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLC, the
Clerk of Court of the U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of California is unable to remove
entire document without a judge's order.
Whereupon,
Kirkland has proudly docketed, "[v]endors contacted via
telephone and subsequently, electronic mail on May 14,
2026 were: • Bloomberg • CourtAlert • CourtHouse
News [sic] • CourtLink/Lexis • DocketAlerm [sic?] •
DocketBird • Docket Navigator • FastCase • Justia •
Law360 • LexMachina • LexisNexis • PacerMonitor •
Westlaw • CourtDrive • PacerPro.
As of 12:37 p.m.
PT, all of the above third-party vendors confirmed the
removal."
But there
remained one more copy out there. Not a problem: "At
approximately 2:15 p.m. PT, Plaintiff’s counsel informed
counsel for Uber that ECF 6194 was available on the
CourtListener (FreeLaw Project) site. I immediately
submitted a request with the vendor to have the
documents removed. At 3:32 p.m. PT, I received written
confirmation that the documents were removed from the
CourtListener website."
