An Argentinian lawyer is saddled with more than $28,000 in sanctions after a federal judge threw out his complaint against Uber Technologies Inc. for knowingly submitting an “inaccurate and misleading” lawsuit.  

The plaintiff, Michael Rattagan, claimed that the ride-sharing company effectively used him as a legal scapegoat for local regulatory backlash ahead of its botched Buenos Aires launch. After submitting his lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the Uber entities he listed, including Uber Technologies Inc., Uber International BV and Uber International Holdings BV, alerted him to “a fatal jurisdictional defect,” according to Judge Edward Chen’s order granting Uber’s motion for sanctions and dismissing Rattagan’s complaint.