Checker Cab Phila. v. Phila. Parking Auth.

I. Introduction

Legal challenges by the taxicab industry to the advent of so-called Transportation Network Companies ("TNCs") such as Uber and Lyft are not new. This lawsuit, brought by taxi companies, does not seek to impose liability on TNCs themselves, but rather against the governmental agency responsible for regulating taxicabs in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Parking Authority ("PPA"), for not doing more to combat TNCs before TNCs were legalized in Philadelphia.

Plaintiffs, Checker Cab Philadelphia and several hundred other medallion-holding taxi companies (collectively, "Checker"), seek…