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Maryland food truck owners challenge anti-competition laws

January 31, 2019

A pair of food truck owners who sued to change Baltimore’s "300-foot rule," preventing mobile food vendors from operating within 300 feet of a brick-and-mortar business offering the same food, now want the court to take its judgment a step further, according to the Baltimore Business Journal.

The 2017 ruling banning the restrictive law did not say that it was unconstitutional for the city to restrict where food trucks can operate based on the competitive threat they pose to other businesses.

On Feb. 5, Robert Frommer, a senior attorney for the Institute for Justice, will argue before the Maryland Court of Special Appeals in Annapolis that Maryland should allow food trucks to operate free of anticompetitive restrictions. Frommer represents the two food truck owners who challenged the 300-foot rule in 2016.