Uber Escapes Lyft Driver's Dirty-Tricks Lawsuit—for Now

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Uber Technologies Inc. wiggled out of a three-year-old lawsuit by a Lyft Inc. driver accusing the ride-hailing giant of using dirty tricks.

But Uber’s victory may be short-lived. A judge gave the Lyft driver another chance to fix the legal flaws in his 2016 complaint accusing Uber of creating fake Lyft accounts to lure its smaller rival’s drivers to phony ride requests.