Judge tosses chamber’s suit against Seattle over Uber law
A lawsuit brought by the US Chamber of Commerce against a recent Seattle ordinance allowing Uber and taxi drivers to unionize was thrown out by a federal court Tuesday. Seattle's city council passed the ordinance in December, giving app-based drivers along with taxi and limo drivers the right to organize and bargain for better wages and working conditions. The Chamber sued this past spring, claiming the ordinance was unlawful and violated antitrust laws. The court ruled that the Chamber's complaint was premature, as the city was still in the process of putting the ordinance into effect, and it was too early for businesses to determine they had been harmed by it.
See "Judge tosses chamber’s suit against Seattle over Uber law", Daniel Beekman, The Seattle Times, August 10, 2016