Uber has won its legal push to dismiss a hefty damages case brought against it in London. The action, worth around 340 million pounds, was filed by thousands of London black cab drivers together with two former private hire firms. The drivers argued that Uber's rise in the capital sapped their earnings and did lasting damage to the traditional taxi trade. They had hoped the courts would award them a collective payout for those losses. Uber instead asked for the case to be thrown out before it got going, and the bid succeeded. The company has seen plenty of litigation in Britain over the years, so a straightforward win counts as rare good news in its legal department. For the cabbies, a route to compensation that took years to build now appears to be shut.