March 14, 2018
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday ended a suit from Philadelphia cab operators alleging the city's parking authority unfairly refused to regulate ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft, finding the agency's former executive director who was forced out amid a scandal in 2016 was immune from liability.
January 31, 2018
Philadelphia this week became the latest city where cab drivers failed to convince a court that regulators unconstitutionally harmed their industry by going easy on ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft, once again showing the sway of an early appellate ruling on the issue by now-retired jurist Richard Posner.
January 29, 2018
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday killed the bulk of a suit by Philadelphia taxicab operators alleging the city's parking authority unfairly refused to regulate ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft, ruling that the court couldn't protect the cabbies from market competition.
June 07, 2017
More than 300 Philadelphia taxicab operators have plausibly shown their constitutional rights were violated when the city's parking authority refused to regulate ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft, a Pennsylvania federal judge said Tuesday.
September 28, 2016
Cabdrivers packed a Pennsylvania federal judge's courtroom on Wednesday as a string of witnesses testified in support of an injunction to strip the Philadelphia Parking Authority of its ability to enforce regulations on taxis that exceed burdens placed on ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft.
August 30, 2016
A coalition comprising about 80 percent of Philadelphia's licensed taxicabs and dispatchers filed a complaint against the Philadelphia Parking Authority in Pennsylvania federal court, claiming that its regulatory favoritism toward so-called transportation network companies such as Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. has put traditional cab companies on the path to bankruptcy.