Waymo Jury May Be Warned Uber Lawyers Didn’t ‘Come Clean’

By Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg News

Uber Technologies Inc. may pay a price for withholding key evidence from Waymo when their trade secrets dispute goes to trial -- the judge proposed letting the jury know the ride-hailing company’s lawyers didn’t “come clean.”

“I’m inclined to let the jury know what happened here,” U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Wednesday at a hearing in San Francisco, speaking to one of Uber’s lead lawyers. “You misled the judge time and time again.”

Alsup said he agreed with Waymo that Uber didn’t turn over the evidence by court-ordered deadlines, adding that he hasn’t made ...