Uber doesn’t want jury to see report, but judge says Uber is “stuck” with it

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SAN FRANCISCO-On the second day of the Waymo v. Uber trade secrets trial, US District Judge William Alsup ruled in favor of Waymo, allowing an internal due diligence report to stand.

Late Monday, several hours after the first day's trial, in court filings, Uber lawyers asked the judge to exclude a slew of materials and deposition testimony that was made public for the first time on Monday evening, arguing that they constituted inadmissible "hearsay."

Among others, these items include drafts and notes that eventually formed the due diligence report that Uber commissioned after a star self-driving engineer, Anthony Levandowski, abruptly left Google in January 2016. Several months later, Levandowski's company, Ottomotto, was acquired by Uber for $680 million.

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