Selenium/capybara: uncheck() does not work in chrome web driver

I am using Selenium/capybara uncheck("permission_set_item_edit_permission") to uncheck a box. (see sample HTML code). It works fine with firefox. But chrome driver does not uncheck the box. It seems it finds the element but uncheck does not work. Is there something special about chrome driver? In general I have found chrome to be more finnicky than FF.

<tr class="entity">
      <th class="bold">Item1</th>
      <td>
            <div class="permission-records">
              <label>&nbsp;</label>
              <label>&nbsp;</label>
              <label><input name="permission_set[item_edit_permission]" type="hidden" value="0"><input id="permission_set_item_edit_permission" name="permission_set[item_edit_permission]" type="checkbox" value="1"> Edit Global</label>
            </div>
      </td>
    </tr>