GrubHub Defeats NYC Data-Sharing Law in Speech Fight (Correct)

DoorDash Inc., GrubHub Inc., and Uber Technologies Inc.‘s Uber Eats convinced a federal judge to hold unconstitutional a New York City law requiring food delivery apps to share customer data with restaurants.

The Customer Data Law violates the First Amendment because it regulates commercial speech and doesn’t concern unlawful or misleading activity, Judge Analisa Torres said in an order issued Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The law stemmed from concerns about delivery companies’ leverage over restaurants fueled by pandemic-forced closures, and aimed to enable restaurants to sidestep the platforms and ...