NYC Taxi Drivers Get Another Shot to Challenge For-Hire Program

Manhattan judges on Tuesday revived New York City taxi drivers’ lawsuit challenging a city program that aims to increase the number of for-hire vehicles.

The New York Taxi Workers Alliance has shown it could suffer actual injury if the city’s pilot program—which aims to allow more than 2,500 additional for-hire vehicles to use otherwise-idle street-hail livery licenses—is allowed to move forward, the New York Supreme Court First Appellate Department said.

The alliance’s allegations that they’ll be harmed by a loss of income and a deterioration of driver well-being “are neither speculative nor conjunctural; rather, it is well-demonstrated” by industry data, ...