Short Circuit 186 | Chillin’ With Uber

Usually a “chill” on your freedom of speech is the easiest constitutional injury to prove. But in the Tenth Circuit it seems if you speak too much you’re not “chilled,” and therefore not “injured,” even if you’re breaking an unconstitutional law. Adam Shelton walks us through this chilling brain teaser. Meanwhile, when is competition “unfair”? Alexa Gervasi explains that in Massachusetts it was not unfair for Uber to compete against taxicabs when its own right to operate was, shall we say, a grey area. Plus, some nostalgia for the halcyon days of 2013 when getting in a ridesharing car was something you didn’t tell your mother.

Transcript forthcoming.

IJ’s Conference on the Will of the People, https://ij.org/event/does-the-will-of-the-people-actually-exist/

Rio Grande Foundation v. City of Sante Fe, https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/files/opinions/010110556757.pdf

Anoush Cab, Inc. v. Uber Technologies, Inc., http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/19-2001P-01A.pdf

Alexa Gervasi, https://ij.org/staff/alexa-gervasi/

Adam Shelton, https://ij.org/staff/adam-shelton/

Anthony Sanders, https://ij.org/staff/asanders/

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