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Re:Chicago taxi industry sliding towards collapse by clock_tower on Friday June 09, 2017 @10:22PM (#14525856)
Uber broke the taxi laws and dared regulators to stop them -- and they mostly won that dare. (Remember all that talk about disruption?)
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Re:Chicago taxi industry sliding towards collapse by gehwartzen on Friday June 09, 2017 @10:33PM (#14525875)
Couldn't medallion holders then sue whomever issues them since they aren't enforcing the rules/terms under which they were originally sold?
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Re:Chicago taxi industry sliding towards collapse by criddell on Saturday June 10, 2017 @02:36PM (#14528545)
They did and the 7th circuit ruled that the businesses were different enough that they can be regulated differently. The supreme court declined to hear the case, so that's how it was left.

It's the last two paragraphs of the article.

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Re:Chicago taxi industry sliding towards collapse by clock_tower on Friday June 09, 2017 @10:35PM (#14525880)
I'd guess that they probably could.
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Re:Chicago taxi industry sliding towards collapse by sanswork on Saturday June 10, 2017 @12:02AM (#14526106)
Uber generally didn't break taxi laws since most cities only give medallion owners monopoly over unbooked pickups.

Uber generally broke car service laws by not requiring their drivers to have the local registrations.

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