{"id":764,"date":"2017-05-11T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/05\/11\/legal-trend-are-ride-shares-a-platform-or-a-transportation-company-one-court-expected-to-call-a-spade-a-spade\/"},"modified":"2017-05-11T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T18:32:00","slug":"legal-trend-are-ride-shares-a-platform-or-a-transportation-company-one-court-expected-to-call-a-spade-a-spade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/legal-trend-are-ride-shares-a-platform-or-a-transportation-company-one-court-expected-to-call-a-spade-a-spade\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal TREND. Are ride shares a platform or a transportation company? One Court expected to call a spade a spade."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Court:<\/strong>\u00a0The European Union&#8217;s highest court<\/p>\n<p><strong>The issue- is ride share\u00a0a platform or a transportation company?<\/strong>\u00a0Legal pundits expect the court to rule that ride share companies are transportation companies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What will be the impact?<\/strong>\u00a0Stricter regulations apply to transportation companies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are pundits now paying attention to this?<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;An influential advisor to the court, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar, has published his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2017-05\/cp170050en.pdf\" style=\"color:rgb(8,158,0);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opinion<\/a>\u00a0on the case&#8221; and that opinion is not good for ride share.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/05\/11\/europes-top-court-leaning-towards-dealing-uber-a-big-regulatory-blow\/\">Tech Crunch |\u00a0Europe\u2019s top court leaning towards dealing Uber a big regulatory blow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Court:<\/strong>\u00a0The European Union&#8217;s highest court<\/p>\n<p><strong>The issue- is ride share\u00a0a platform or a transportation company?<\/strong>\u00a0Legal pundits expect the court to rule that ride share companies are transportation companies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What will be the impact?<\/strong>\u00a0Stricter regulations apply to transportation companies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are pundits now paying attention to this?<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;An influential advisor to the court, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar, has published his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2017-05\/cp170050en.pdf\" style=\"color:rgb(8,158,0);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opinion<\/a>\u00a0on the case&#8221; and that opinion is not good for ride share.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/05\/11\/europes-top-court-leaning-towards-dealing-uber-a-big-regulatory-blow\/\">Tech\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-764","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\/764","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=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}