Court Grants Uber, Lyft Injunction, Reddit Suit Survives Dismissal

A federal court in the Southern District of New York granted Uber and Lyft a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of a New York City law that set deactivation protections for high-volume for-hire vehicle drivers, finding the companies likely to succeed on Contracts Clause claims. The same district denied most motions to dismiss in Reddit's case over tools alleged to bypass anti-scraping technology, though it granted dismissal of SerpApi's section 1201(b) claims and the unfair competition and unjust enrichment claims against both defendants. Federal courts logged 308 opinions on the collection day, nearly four times their trailing weekend average.

Why it matters: For-hire vehicle companies and drivers affected by the city law, and the parties in the Reddit litigation, now have new rulings to track, and attorneys following the federal docket have 308 opinions from the collection day to review.

What moved

• Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. City of New York; Lyft, Inc. v. City of New York (US): The court granted preliminary injunctions to Uber and Lyft blocking enforcement of a New York City law establishing deactivation protections for high-volume for-hire vehicle drivers, finding the companies likely to succeed on Contracts Clause claims. The ruling stated the protections applied to approximately 1% of drivers annually. The injunction has been granted; the record does not state a further procedural step.

• Reddit, Inc. v. Serpapi LLC, Oxylabs UAB, AWMPROXY, and Perplexity AI, Inc. (US): The court denied most motions to dismiss in a DMCA circumvention case where Reddit alleges the defendants bypassed anti-scraping technology to access and scrape Reddit content at scale for use in AI training, finding standing based on injuries to Reddit's copyright interests, reputational harm, and lost licensing revenue from AI companies. The court granted dismissal only as to SerpApi's section 1201(b) claim and the unfair competition and unjust enrichment claims against both defendants. The record states no further procedural step beyond these rulings.

• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - Notice of Rulemaking Hearing, Permanent Rules, or Emergency Rules (Colorado): The Colorado Department of State published a Notice of Rulemaking Hearing relating to permanent rules or emergency rules for SNAP in the October Colorado Register, accessible through the Colorado Register website. The notice itself does not state further rule details.

• Alaska Administrative Code - Title 8 - Department of Labor and Workforce Development regulations re: Alaska Labor Relations Agency - Eliminate hard copies, need for notarization - Alaska Online Public Notices (Alaska): The filing eliminates hard copy and notarization requirements for the Alaska Labor Relations Agency (8 AAC 97.010 to .320). It was filed October 9 and takes effect November 8, 2026, published in Register Issue 260. It applies to Alaska Labor Relations Agency filing procedures.

By the numbers

• Federal courts' opinions entered the record 308 times, about four times their trailing 30 day weekend average of 79 for federal opinions. The highest count since tracking began for federal opinions remains 677, set October 2 (data load day).
• Across all jurisdictions, opinions entered the record 308 times against a trailing weekend average of about 102, roughly three times what a Sunday usually brings.
• Colorado's regulations entered the record 25 times, the most since July 21; Colorado's regulations typically show none on a weekend day within the trailing 30 days (excluding data-load days).
• No bills or executive orders entered the record anywhere on the collection day, in line with weekend averages under 3 for federal bills and under 1 for federal executive orders.

Bill actions

No tracked bill carried an action dated October 11.

Methodology

"Collected" means the pipeline's collection date, not the date a bill, regulation, or opinion originated. Counts are deduplicated processed records from OmniLegislation's own pipeline, and item descriptions come from the pipeline's own summaries of each record. Baselines are trailing 30 day daily averages for the same kind of day, weekend days against weekend days, that exclude known data-load days; the highest single-day counts since tracking began on April 5, 2026 include load days, labelled accordingly. Bill actions cover tracked bills only. This report covers October 11, 2026. Bill records originate from LegiScan; court opinions from CourtListener, a Free Law Project service; federal regulations from the Federal Register.