City of HoustonCourt: U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Docket: 10-20381    October 10, 2011 Judge: Jones Areas of Law: Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government & Administrative Law Plaintiff, a group representing taxicab companies that hold only one to three permits for cabs, asserted that the city's plan to distribute new taxicab permits violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. [read post]