The ordinances violate the Takings and Contract Clauses of the U.S. Constitution, Grubhub alleged in a complaint filed Dec. 10 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The New York City laws create an “unconstitutional, privacy-infringing, data-disclosure requirement pursuant to which third-party food-ordering and delivery platforms such as Grubhub Inc. (‘Grubhub’) must divulge, against their will, sensitive, proprietary customer information,” the company argued.
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