{"id":344,"date":"2015-11-17T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/11\/17\/legal-trend-taxi-drivers-sue-ride-share-drivers-sharing-economy-litigates-3-points-to-know\/"},"modified":"2015-11-17T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T21:12:00","slug":"legal-trend-taxi-drivers-sue-ride-share-drivers-sharing-economy-litigates-3-points-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/legal-trend-taxi-drivers-sue-ride-share-drivers-sharing-economy-litigates-3-points-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Trend: Taxi Drivers Sue Ride Share Drivers. Sharing Economy Litigates. 3 Points to Know."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What cause of action are contract taxi drivers bringing against ride share companies?<\/strong>\u00a0Tortious interference with business, punitive damages, and class certification.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where is the lawsuit filed?<\/strong>\u00a0Missouri,\u00a0St. Louis County Circuit Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the laws and ordinances for ride share in Missouri?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Statewide: no supportive laws<\/li>\n<li>Local ordinances: As of September 18, 2015,\u00a0St. Louis Metropolitan Taxicab Commission allows for ride share operators as long as drivers are fingerprinted as part of their background check.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>The local ordinance is in federal court after ride share companies sued, and the Commission counter sued.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/2015\/11\/17\/st-louis-cabbies-take-the-fight-to-uber.htm\">Courthouse News Service | St. Louis\u00a0cabbies\u00a0take\u00a0the\u00a0fight\u00a0to\u00a0uber<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What cause of action are contract taxi drivers bringing against ride share companies?<\/strong>\u00a0Tortious interference with business, punitive damages, and class certification.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where is the lawsuit filed?<\/strong>\u00a0Missouri,\u00a0St. Louis County Circuit Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the laws and ordinances for ride share in Missouri?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Statewide: no supportive laws<\/li>\n<li>Local ordinances: As of September 18, 2015,\u00a0St. Louis Metropolitan Taxicab Commission allows for ride share operators as long as drivers are fingerprinted as&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-trend","category-legislative-trend","category-ride-share","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}