Dikran Migdesyan, owner of Karos City Tours, spent thirty years taking tourists around Amsterdam by horse-drawn carriage from the Dam.
Six years ago the city stopped issuing new permits to businesses that carry tourists, including tuk-tuks, bike taxis and his carriage company.
After years of legal battles, he has now taken his case to the Raad van State, the Council of State, to try to get his permit back.
Carriages kept, horses sold
Migdesyan still owns three carriages and the coach house, but he has had to sell his horses.
His legal fight against the city has now lasted six years.
Bike taxis and tuk-tuks
One of his arguments is that bike taxis and tuk-tuks cause more congestion in the city than his horse carriages do.
He says it looks as though the city mainly wanted to get rid of those two, and that his business became a casualty of that decision.
For anyone wondering how a city decision can stop a carriage that ran from the Dam for thirty years, here is how Amsterdam is actually governed.