Decisions to bury important information like the legal reasons of why the taxi companies are suing is why I think that most media companies are fundamentally broken.
I'm no student of journalism, but shouldn't best practice include guidelines like: "Make the best case for every side of an argument as soon as possible in an article. Do not bury important points that could be made early on in order to force the reader to turn the page or give the impression that one side is being favored."