Uber’s name is on the side of one of the buildings at its Mission Bay headquarters at 1725 Third St. on Monday, March 29, 2021, in San Francisco.

Uber was in the hot seat as two measures that target the ride-hailing company’s financial liabilities officially qualified for the November ballot — for less than 24 hours. On Thursday afternoon, the ride-hailing company and a group of trial attorneys issued a joint statement that they had reached an agreement and plan to throw out their battling ballot measures.

Uber and a group of personal injury attorneys spent tens of millions campaigning to qualify the two measures to be on the ballot this November. The California Secretary of State’s office announced Wednesday evening that both had qualified. One that was advertised as a pro-consumer proposal and backed by Uber sought to reduce the amount of money personal injury lawyers could get in car crash settlements, and the other proposed to increase Uber and other ride-hailing companies’ legal liability for sexual misconduct claims. The latter was backed by an attorney advocacy group.  

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But, the very next day, the groups agreed to kill the proposals.

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