Atlanta Cabbies losing battle on the road and in the courtroom against Uber and Lyft – PB/TK
Uber-fighting cabbies get schooled by Ga. Supreme Court – By Matt Kempner / May 16 2017
Atlanta taxi drivers, who’ve already had their lunches eaten by Uber and Lyft, just learned a painful lesson about government regulation.
You can’t count on it to save your financial neck.
On Monday, the Georgia Supreme Court agreed with a lower court ruling, essentially killing a proposed class-action lawsuit brought by Atlanta cab drivers. The cabbies wanted the state to compensate them for the plummeting value of their government-issued certificates to operate vehicles for hire.
Actually, what the high court’s robed justices did was more akin to stomping the legal action, chasing it down and stomping it some more. The ruling was unanimous.
It may be the last legal gasp by local taxi drivers battling ride-share services whose popularity upended an industry almost overnight.
Bill Pannell, one of the attorneys representing the taxi drivers, sounded like he didn’t see much room to pursue the legal issues further.
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