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Having looked in the last few days at the problems of insurance and Uber drivers, the City of Toronto will file the paperwork to take another legal crack atshutting down Uber, but it hasn't decided whether it will actually follow through. The previous attempt failed. Lawyer Matthew Cornett confirmed Friday the city will serve a notice of appeal Tuesday to challenge Judge Sean Dunphy's Superior Court ruling.
"This will preserve our right to appeal (within the 30 day-limit)," Cornett said.
Last month, Dunphy denied the city's application for an injunction against the ridesharing company, ruling Uber isn't operating a taxi cab or limousine service. A lawyer for the city had argued Uber should fall under the same licensing requirements that govern taxi brokerages because "if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then you should call it a duck." Dunphy disagreed.
(Score: 2) by bziman on Monday August 03 2015, @02:24AM
The judge probably thinks that taxi license racket is obsolete, and found a technical reading of the law that let him rule in a way that makes sense. You can't claim that the justice system is ever actually about justice - not in the USA and probably not in Canada, either. At least this time, it's to the benefit of the public.