Roadrunner Charters Inc., a Texas-based company and one of the 17 bus operators targeted by Mayor Eric Adams' lawsuit last year, has retaliated with its own legal action.
The company alleges that the mayor's lawsuit was "frivolous" and unlawfully disrupted its business operations.
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According to The New York Post, Roadrunner is pursuing unspecified damages from the city, arguing that the original lawsuit was merely a distraction from the "inadequacies" of federal immigration policies. The mayor's lawsuit, filed in January 2024, sought to hold the bus companies financially responsible for the significant costs incurred by the city in accommodating the 33,000 migrants they transported. However, in July, a Manhattan judge dismissed the city's case, ruling it unconstitutional. The decision was partly based on the fact that the lawsuit relied on a 19th-century "pauper's statute," which the U.S. Supreme Court had previously deemed unconstitutional.
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Roadrunner's federal court complaint claims that the city's legal action forced the company to cease its migrant transportation services in March, a service it had been providing since the spring of 2022. The lawsuit also contends that the city's demand for substantial damages threatened the company's survival. Moreover, the complaint asserts that the city violated Roadrunner's constitutional right to engage in interstate commerce and transportation.
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Robert Hantman, the attorney representing Roadrunner, stated, "The new case is an effort to discourage the filing of frivolous lawsuits by the city that impact private entities who have nothing to do with immigration policy." He praised the judge's decision to dismiss the Adams' case, describing it as "well-written."
Mayor Adams had previously accused the bus companies of making excessive profits, claiming they charged approximately $1,650 per person transported, which is five times the average cost of a one-way ticket from Texas to New York. In response to the lawsuit, a City Hall spokesperson remarked, "At the height of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, Texas and several bus companies were irresponsibly trying to exhaust our social services system by busing thousands of migrants to New York City with no notice. The city brought the lawsuit to fight these efforts, stop the blatant disregard for migrants’ wellbeing, and preserve the city’s ability to serve everyone in our care. We will review the filing."
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The ongoing migrant crisis has been a prominent issue since President Trump's tenure, during which he implemented executive orders aimed at curbing illegal immigration, including an attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship. In a related development, the Trump administration's Justice Department recently dismissed a criminal corruption case against Mayor Adams, expressing hope that he will now focus on addressing the migrant crisis in New York City.
