Philadelphia Taxi Association, Inc. v. Uber Technologies, Inc.
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
886 F.3d 332 (2018)
When Uber (defendant) entered the Philadelphia market it hired roughly 1,200 drivers away from existing taxi companies, allegedly flooding the market without buying required medallions and skirting regulations like minimum wage and insurance requirements, which let it undercut competitors on price. The Philadelphia Taxi Association and 80 member companies (plaintiffs) sued for attempted monopolization; the trial court dismissed the complaint for failing to plausibly allege attempted monopoly, and the plaintiffs appealed.
Whether attempted monopolization under antitrust law requires both predatory or anticompetitive conduct undertaken with specific intent and a dangerous probability of actually achieving monopoly power.