Local cab companies were dealt a blow last week in their ongoing efforts to underserve the last-call holdouts and stranded citizens of the city of Minneapolis.
Last year, the City Council voted to expand the number of taxis in Minneapolis, which had been capped at 373. The reforms promised to add 180 cabs to our streets by 2011, boosting the city's backseat confessionals by half.
But the Minnesota Taxi Owners Coalition, which represents 53 cabbies, found this experiment in free market capitalism oppressive. The group filed a lawsuit seeking to preserve its monopoly.
Last week, U.S. Magistrate Franklin Noel tossed the suit, ruling that "license holders do not have a constitutionally protected freedom from competition."
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