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Anthony Levandowski Ordered to Pay $179 Million to Google

posted by martyb on Friday March 06 2020, @03:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the crime-does-not-pay dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow4275:

Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179 million to Google:

Anthony Levandowski, the engineer and autonomous vehicle startup founder who was at the center of a trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, has been ordered to pay $179 million to end a contract dispute over his departure from Google.

Reuters was the first to report the court order.

An arbitration panel ruled in December that Levandowski [...] had engaged in unfair competition and breached [his] contract with Google when [he] left the company to start a rival autonomous vehicle company focused on trucking, called Otto. Uber acquired Otto in 2017. A San Francisco County court confirmed Wednesday the panel's decision.

[...] Levandowski, had disputed the ruling. The San Francisco County Superior Court denied his petition today, granting Google's petition to hold Levandowski to the arbitration agreement under which he was liable.

[...] Levandowski personally filed today for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, stating that the presumptive $179M debt quite exceeds his assets, which he estimates at somewhere between $50M and $100M.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2020, @10:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2020, @10:10PM (#967671)

    Back to working at McDonalds for you, contract breacher.