Lawyers for Uber Technologies Inc. are seeking to force the estate of a New Mexico man who died after being shot by his Uber driver to pursue wrongful death claims against the company in arbitration.

The company’s lawyers at Modrall Sperling in Albuquerque, New Mexico, filed a complaint to compel arbitration Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico in the wrongful death suit brought on behalf of James Porter. Porter, a 27-year-old who worked for Hewlett-Packard in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, died after being shot by his Uber driver, Clayton Benedict, on March 17, 2019. Uber’s federal complaint came as the company fired motion to compel arbitration in the wrongful death lawsuit pending in New Mexico state court hit the docket. (The federal filing was surfaced by Legal Radar, Law.com’s free, personalized news feed.)

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