The Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade alleges that the city and the Taxi and Limousine Commission, which is expected to approve the rules for so-called borough taxis on Thursday, are depriving owners of the city's 13, 000 yellow-cab medallions of their "exclusive right" to accept street hails.
"Thousands of individual owner-drivers and hundreds of small-business owners in both the taxi and livery industries are breathing a sigh of relief, " said Michael Woloz, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, a plaintiff in the suit.