The laws they allegedly broke were the taxi medallion cartel laws, which were the things keeping taxis terrible by limiting supply and competition. And those laws in general apply to the drivers rather than the ride hailing service. There is also a lot of ambiguity there, e.g. if you have a ride sharing service where people go on the app to find people to carpool with on a trip they'd be making anyway and then contribute gas money, is that a taxi service?
But the taxi services obviously hated the competition and waged a continuing media campaign to paint the renegades as the villains.
But the taxi services obviously hated the competition and waged a continuing media campaign to paint the renegades as the villains.