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21 Hamline J. Pub. L. & Pol'y 319 (1999-2000)
Taxi and Limousines: The Last Bastion of Economic Regulation

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TAXI AND LIMOUSINES:
THE LAST BASTION OF ECONOMIC REGULATION
Robert M. Hardaway*
I.     INTRODUCTION
There are a handful of jurisdictions that still transparently
regulate limousine service for the specific purpose of limiting
competition and protecting an incumbent oligopoly.' After twenty-
* Robert Hardaway is Professor of Law at the University of Denver
College of Law in Denver, Colorado. He is a graduate of Amherst College
(Cum Laude, with an Honors in Economics) and New York University Law
School (Cum Laude and Order of the Coif) where he was an editor on the New
York University Law Review. He has taught law and public policy at the
University of California-Hastings Law  School and George Washington
University Law School in Washington, D.C. He has also served in the Judge
Advocate General's Corps of the United States Navy, and has practiced law
with a major firm in Denver, Colorado. He is the author of eight published
books, most of which deal with law and public policy. He is also the author of
twenty six scholarly articles and reviews published in major law reviews and
journals, many of which deal with transportation, regulation, and has published
forty editorial articles on public policy, including an article on taxicab
deregulation in the Christian Science Monitor. He has made numerous media
appearances on CNN, CNBC, NBC, public television, and national public radio.
He has presented fourteen papers, mostly in the area of transportation
regulation, at various national conferences as well as for the Institute for
International Research in Sydney Australia. In 1985, he testified before the
Aviation Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Public Works
Committee on the subject of monopolization of airport resources. He recently
presented a paper to the executive staff and General Counsel of the Federal
Aviation Division of the Department of Transportation on the subject of anti-
competitive practices in the airline industry and the monopolization of airport
resources.
I Gerald C.S. Mildner, and Lyrrette D. Podkranic, An Economic Analysis
of Taxi and Limousine Regulation in Las Vegas 29 (July 1999) (unpublished
manuscript on file with author). The authors identify six cities that are known to

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