You might be astounded at the lengths businesses go to to win ADA lawsuits. My girlfriend uses a wheelchair, and after months of negotiation with the clinic where her doctor works, she brought suit against them for not providing her with accessible tables, or indeed an accessible bathroom to provide urine samples in. She's an activist who routinely gets arrested for acts of civil disobedience. Anyhow, the clinic's lawyers asked her lots of questions about her prior arrests and criminal record, as if having one permitted them to violate her civil rights. Unfortunately it was a video deposition, so while her lawyer could object strenuously and while the judge could (and ultimately did) ignore the lines of questioning, they still grilled her about irrelevance in order to justify not providing the accommodations.

The absolutely insane thing about all of this is that the clinic already had most of the accommodations in question. They had accessible tables already, they just didn't teach front desk staff about them and had policies set up that required doctors to work exclusively in specific areas. The only significant change was a bathroom remodel, and they're not a small clinic by any means. But the fact that they dragged her criminal history into the light made absolutely no sense, compounded by the fact that said criminal history involved getting arrested specifically to fight access violations like that one.

Not at all surprised by Uber's tactic here. Sickens me that we still have to fight very basic battles like these 25 years after the ADA was passed. I just want to grab some people and shake them until loose braincells fall into place or something.

Edit: Oh, right, and opposing counsel wanted the passwords to her Gmail and Facebook so they could read anything she wrote about the clinic in question. They also considered expanding that request to anyone she may have spoken to/emailed about them (I.e. me as her boyfriend.) I wish they'd have tried that so I could pull in counsel of my own.