The Supreme Court of the State of New York has annulled a regulation that would have required “For Hire Vehicle Bases” (such as Uber and Lyft) to limit the time drivers on their platforms spent “cruising” (without a passenger in the vehicle) to 31 percent of total driving time in lower Manhattan. The court ruled that the cruising cap was without sound basis in reason and imposed without regards to the facts.
Data sharing in hybrid marketplaces with endogenous fee setting
The issue is especially timely given provisions in the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) designed to expand access to data held by large digital platforms. The...