Author: Mike Beggs

The Toronto taxi plate owners’ attempt to have a $1.7-billion class action suit certified against the City of Toronto has been dismissed again.

Co-appellants Lawrence Eisenberg, Behrouz Khamzeh, and Sukhvir Thethi were appealing a December 2019 Ontario Supreme Court decision which denied their claims that the owners’ huge loss of business to Uber stemmed from the City’s failure to enforce its by-laws against the Silicon Valley-based ridesharing giant (particularly in the period from 2014 to 2016 when Uber rolled out its unlicensed Uber X service, gaining significant market share while operating outside the law).