A large share of the federal lawsuits accusing Uber of failing to protect passengers from sexual assault is being resolved without a trial, a verdict or any public account of the terms. In a joint case management statement filed on September 9, 2026, lawyers for the passengers and for Uber told the court that 834 active cases in the federal litigation are subject to settlement but remain on the docket, along with 311 more in the parallel California state court proceeding. Those figures are counts of cases, not a schedule of payments: because this litigation is not a class action, each agreement is negotiated case by case, no court reviews the terms for fairness, and no court has found Uber liable for anything.
What the September filing reports
The statement was filed for the case management conference held on September 11, 2026 before Senior U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer in San Francisco, who has overseen the federal cases since they were centralized in 2023. It is the parties’ own accounting of the docket, and it is the source of every number in this article.
- 4,182 active cases in the federal litigation as of September 3, 2026
- More than 245 new cases filed, and 18 dismissed, since the previous conference
- 274 cases dismissed with prejudice to date
- 153 cases subject to pending motions to dismiss without prejudice
- 834 active cases subject to settlement that remain on the docket
The California state court side of the litigation, coordinated as In re Uber Rideshare Litigation, reports roughly 697 cases pending, of which 311 are subject to settlements and remain on that docket. The state court has not set a next trial and will revisit trial scheduling at a status conference in late October.
Why the settlement count is not a price list
The distinction that governs all of these numbers is the one between a multidistrict litigation and a class action. When the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation centralized the federal cases in October 2023, it sent them to one judge for pretrial proceedings because they share common questions about what Uber knew and what it did. It did not merge them into a single claim.
- Each case keeps its own facts, its own records and its own value
- A resolution in one case does not set terms for another
- No court approves the terms as fair, because there is no class to protect
- No court makes a finding of liability when a case resolves this way
- The amounts, and usually the existence of any particular agreement, stay private
A count of settled cases shows that the litigation is moving. It does not show what any one case was worth.
Settled cases stay on the docket for months
A case recorded as subject to settlement has not left the court. Dismissal papers follow the completion of terms, and in a proceeding of this size that administrative tail runs months behind the agreements themselves. The same filing records the reverse situation: 315 cases dismissed without prejudice in which a conversion to dismissal with prejudice has been requested.
That lag is why the settlement figures move in large steps rather than smoothly, and why a number reported in September describes decisions made across the preceding months rather than in the week it was filed.
What the numbers do not answer
None of this speaks to the question a passenger considering a claim is actually asking, which is whether there is a claim at all. That turns on the trip record, on what was documented and when, and on the deadline that applies in the state where the ride happened — facts that are individual to one person and one night.
The narrow point a filing like this does establish is that the litigation is active, that it is still receiving new cases at a rate of several hundred between conferences, and that the work of resolving it is being done one case at a time rather than collectively.
This article is general information about how these cases work. It is not legal advice, it does not create an attorney-client relationship, and no two claims are alike. If something here sounds like your situation, the useful next step is a conversation about the facts.
