{"id":684,"date":"2017-01-25T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/01\/25\/legal-trend-judge-dismisses-taxi-suit-against-ride-share-law\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:05:00","slug":"legal-trend-judge-dismisses-taxi-suit-against-ride-share-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/legal-trend-judge-dismisses-taxi-suit-against-ride-share-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Trend: Judge Dismisses Taxi Suit Against Ride Share Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The State:<\/strong>\u00a0Massachusettes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did the taxis sue to enjoin the law?<\/strong>\u00a0They said the statwide\u00a0regualtion of ride share companies treats taxis unequally<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did a judge throw out a taxi lawsuit?<\/strong>\u00a0There is no equal protection issue for taxis and ride share companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The legalese:<\/strong>\u00a0The state &#8220;differentiating between TNCs and taxicabs is rationally related to a legitimate government interest in &#8216;fostering a diverse&#8217; transportation-for-hire market,&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/boston\/news\/2017\/01\/25\/uber-claims-victory-after-massachusetts-judge.html\">Boston Business Journal |\u00a0Uber claims &#8216;victory&#8217; after Massachusetts judge dismisses taxi group&#8217;s lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The State:<\/strong>\u00a0Massachusettes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did the taxis sue to enjoin the law?<\/strong>\u00a0They said the statwide\u00a0regualtion of ride share companies treats taxis unequally<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did a judge throw out a taxi lawsuit?<\/strong>\u00a0There is no equal protection issue for taxis and ride share companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The legalese:<\/strong>\u00a0The state &#8220;differentiating between TNCs and taxicabs is rationally related to a legitimate government interest in &#8216;fostering a diverse&#8217; transportation-for-hire market,&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/boston\/news\/2017\/01\/25\/uber-claims-victory-after-massachusetts-judge.html\">Boston Business Journal |\u00a0Uber claims &#8216;victory&#8217;\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,19,10,7,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-legal-trend","category-legislative-trend","category-ride-share","category-sharing-economy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","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=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}