BOSTON — More than 30 taxicab companies filed a lawsuit against the popular ride-hailing app Uber in federal court on Friday, alleging that the company operates in violation of the U.S. Constitution's Equal Protections Clause and "preys parasitically on established taxi services without paying for them and without obeying the laws designed to protect taxi passengers."
The lawsuit, filed by cab companies based out of Boston, Everett, Malden, Medford and Somerville, seeks $60 million in damages and also takes aim at a law passed by the state Legislature regulating "transportation network companies" such as Uber and its rival Lyft.
When Marine General John Kelly gave the keynote speech at the inaugural event of Massachusetts Fallen Heroes in Boston six years ago, he left out an important detail: the death of his son in combat in Afghanistan three weeks before.
Colleagues and friends say it's just like Kelly, who is President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, not to call attention to himself.
