Uber under siege: car-service crackdowns.

• Author: Slade, Stephanie
• Position: Citings - Brief article

THE LATEST municipalities to demand that rideshare services such as Uber cease operating are Anchorage, Alaska, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In Tuscaloosa, drivers who defy the injunction face not just penalties but potential arrest. Virginia already tried to prohibit the company from operating within its borders, a rule reversed in August.

By contrast, both California and Colorado have authorized Uber and similar services to operate legally statewide. However, Los Angeles and San Francisco think that Uber is violating aspects of California's regulations and have threatened the company with injunctions. And as of mid-October, the service was operating in Pennsylvania only under emergency...