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25 Oct 2014, 11:45 am
Cyrus Farivar One of the three defendants indicted two months ago on federal corruption charges stemming from a major contract between Chicago and a major red light camera vendor will now plead guilty. [read post]
4 Aug 2014, 3:40 pm
Cyrus Farivar On Monday, a federal court in Central California sentenced a 26-year-old to one year and nine months in prison for firing two different laser pointers at a Kern County Sheriff’s Office helicopter over a six month period in 2013. [read post]
3 Dec 2019, 10:00 am
(credit: Cyrus Farivar) Four former employees who say Google fired them in retaliation for their efforts to organize co-workers are planning legal action against the company. [read post]
13 Feb 2021, 7:40 am
(credit: Cyrus Farivar) Google will pay $76 million over three years to 121 French news organizations to comply with a new French law requiring Google to pay when it uses "snippets" from news articles, Reuters reports. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 2:05 pm
Cyrus Farivar On Thursday, the California Supreme Court upheld the admissibility of images taken from red light cameras as evidence of traffic violations in the Golden State. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 2:08 pm
(credit: Cyrus Farivar) On Tuesday, a federal jury in Chicago found a former city transportation official guilty on all 20 counts of mail and wire fraud, bribery, extortion, conspiracy, and tax evasion charges. [read post]
15 Jun 2016, 10:25 am
(credit: Cyrus Farivar) Reporter Matthew Keys will not be going to federal prison today as he was scheduled to. [read post]
17 Oct 2014, 7:43 am
Cyrus Farivar The California man who publicly accused Comcast of getting him fired from his job at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) after he complained to the highest levels of Comcast about his year’s worth of billing errors, has made good on his threat to sue his former ISP. [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 6:00 pm
Cyrus Farivar MODESTO, CA—Speaking in his downtown office, Mayor Garrad Marsh told Ars that he has lots of questions for Redflex, one of the largest red light camera (RLC) operators in the United States. [read post]
18 Oct 2017, 11:45 am
Enlarge (credit: Cyrus Farivar) On Wednesday, Amazon sent out another installment of payments relating to its “Apple eBooks Antitrust Settlement”—except this time, it was to settle related lawsuits brought by a group of state-level attorneys general. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 7:34 pm
Cyrus Farivar OAKLAND, CA—Speaking over lunch last Friday, a Northern California man named Conal O'Rourke laid out what admittedly sounds like a crazy story: a year-long billing dispute over his home Comcast service that ultimately resulted in Comcast getting O'Rourke fired from his job at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in nearby San Jose earlier this year. [read post]
26 Apr 2014, 3:20 pm
Cyrus Farivar MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA—On Saturday, in the presence of local dignitaries, the local police department opened up a new substation in the neighborhood of Belle Haven, just a short block down the street from Facebook’s massive corporate headquarters. [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 9:05 pm
”) Earlier on Defense Distributed “arms export” controversy here and here, and more from David Kopel and Cyrus Farivar on the lawsuit settlement. [read post]
26 Jul 2015, 9:05 pm
One Oklahoma official used asset forfeiture to pay back his student loans, another lived rent-free in a confiscated house [Robby Soave, Reason] Per ACLU, Arizona has a one-way legal fee rule in forfeiture cases, with prevailing police allowed to collect from property owner but not vice versa [Jacob Sullum] From Michael Greve, some thoughts on prosecution for profit and where money from public fines should go [Liberty and Law] About the Benjamins: Philadelphia mayor-to-be cites revenue as… [read post]
3 Jan 2019, 10:08 am
Soltani will be in conversation with Ars Technica editors Cyrus Farivar and Annalee Newitz. [read post]
20 Dec 2016, 1:00 pm
(credit: Cyrus Farivar) BAKERSFIELD, Calif. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 2:00 am
(credit: Cyrus Farivar) OAKLAND, Calif. [read post]
9 Aug 2017, 5:40 am
Join Ars Technica editors Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar next Wednesday, 8/16, in conversation with Bracy at Ars Technica Live, at Eli's Mile High Club in Oakland. [read post]
17 Sep 2018, 2:59 am
$101 million in Texas could be biggest trucking damages award in history; crash victim had “told the responding police officer he was not injured and continued on with his journey” [John Kingston, FreightWaves] “Lawyers For Texas Counties In Opioid Cases May Not Have Valid Contracts” [Daniel Fisher, earlier on Texas scramble here, here, here, and especially here] Arbitration defended [Economics21] “Madden NFL 19 Jacksonville shooting victim sues Electronic Arts,… [read post]
3 Apr 2016, 3:00 am
(credit: Cyrus Farivar) SAN FRANCISCO—This past week hundreds of lawyers, technologists, journalists, activists, and others from around the globe descended upon a university conference center to try to figure out the state of digital rights in 2016. [read post]
