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Top 5 Legal issues Hitting Ride Share

Why are we concerned about legal issues related to ride share?

  • Within 4 years, 40% of all American workers will be independent contractors

The top legal issues related to ride-share:

  • Liability
    • Before picking up a fare, is the driver working for the ride share company?
  •  Insurance coverage- whose responsible for it?
  • Are drivers employees or indpendent contractors?
  • Does the sharing economy, using an app, trigger products liability?
  • How does ride share fit with driverless cars?

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Legal Trend: Parking Ticket Funding Reduced by Lawyer Technology

How much reduction in parking ticket funding? $2.5 million reduction in parking ticket funds

How is technology interceding to reduce parking ticket payments? A robot lawyer.

How often has the lawyer robot been utilized? 250,000 times

How often does the robot lawyer win & parking tickets are reduced?  64% of cases won

The Register | Chatbot lawyer shreds $2.5m in parking tickets

A.G. Opinion. The Key Intel Wanted on Texas Central Rail.

The Requestor: Chairman Byron Cook initiated RQ- 0113-KP about Texas Central Rail

The Questions asked of the Attorney General:Do the parties have eminent domain authority to condemn property for Texas High Speed Rail?

The Facts and Statutes key to whether Texas Central Rail has eminent domain power:

  • surveyors have been requesting pre-condemnation access to land to survey for the purpose ofplanning, building, maintaining and operating an electric rail road.
  • pre-condemnation access can…

4 Things to Know about the Lawyer Volunteering to Stop Texas High Speed Rail

The lawyer: Blake Beckham

His legal style: Rottweiler-styled lawyer

Coordination with opponents to high speed rail: Yes. He spoke to Ellis County landowners and was described as putting “wind in the sails”

The Way He Sees to Stop Eminent Domain by Texas Central Rail: By declining Congressional approval of the route, without the route approved, there can be no eminent domain

Ennis Daily News | Beckham vows to fight bullet train

3 Point Speed Read. Waller County. High Speed Rail.

Will eminent domain be used by Texas Centeral Rail to build its Dallas-Houston high speed rail?  Only if deals cannot be reached

How did property owners in Waller County react?

  • Waller County Judge Trey Duhon: “This is a huge eminent domain issue. Texas is a huge private property right state.” 
  • A property owner turned away a precondemnation surveyor on his property
  • Reports are that deals will never come.

High Speed Rail is turning into a standoff.

KHOU | Waller County landowners vow…

INTERIM. Legal Trend: Sharing Economy. Court Says Drivers are Independent Contractors

This week’s settlement of lawsuits in California and Massachusettes maintains the indepdent contractor status of Uber drivers. 

Court sign off will occur when the judge approves the settlement.

KOLO | Uber settlement keeps drivers as contractors in 2 states

The Recorder | Uber Strikes Expensive Peace Pact With Drivers

Transportation Project. Land Speculation. Indictments in North Texas. 3 Key Informed Intel.

What law enforcement agency was investigating land deals in North Texas? U.S. Department of Justice

What transportation project is involved? I-35 E expansion in Denton County

What crimes are alleged to be involved in these land deals?  conspiracy to commit mail fraud

What makes people believe real estate development was land speculation?

  • accused of deceiving the Texas Department of Transportation by
  • buying frontage land low
  • asserting that the land was under development
  • and…

Trend: Self Driving Cars & Legal Liability. 2 Paths.

Will accidents involving self driving cars make the car company liable for the accident? 2 Liability Paths:

  • A google car and a bus collided. In response, Google said it had some liability.
  • Some attorneys say they will be treated like accidents are treated now, because car systems can fail and it leaves the person in the car liable for damage caused.

National Law Review | Foley & Lardner LLP | Liability & Autonomous Vehicles

 

 

INTERIM. Sharing Economy. Sue the Driver, not the Company.

Who is suing ride share drivers? Taxi drivers in New Orleans have filed suit against 10UberX drivers, and not Uber, the company. 

How did the taxi cab drivers figure out who the ride shre drivers were? The drivers were filmed picking up riders

What does the lawsuit allege the ride share drivers did? unfair competition and a violation of Louisiana law requiring a chauffer’s license

NOLA | Cabbies v. Uber drivers lawsuit in court Thursday morning

The legal documents

TRENDING. Legal: High Speed Rail Win in West.

High speed rail enjoyed a legal victory in California when a judge threw out a case against it.

What tactic did the high speed rail opponent employ in California Courts? Opponents said that the high speed rail project did not comply with restrictions on rail by voters.

What did the court say? We don’t know if high speed rail hasn’t complied because high speed rail isn’t up and running in California. It could still comply. 

What are opponents saying now? High Speed Rail will still have…