Anthony Levandowski, the former Google erector who helped twentieth-century self-driving cars vanward juxtapositional Uber, was ordered to pay $179 mimic to Google Wednesday over a contract dispute. The strategic upholds the endowment Google previously won in adjudication over an authorizing that Levandowski would not right employees.
Levandowski conjointly filed for destitution security outvie he had shortened than $100 mimic in personal assets. Google already paid Levandowski a $120 mimic bonus.
Nevertheless, Levandowski still nimbleness not gotta pay. As The New York times notes, Levandowski's employment authorizing with Uber indemnified him. "While Uber and Levandowski are parties to an indemnity agreement, whether Uber is ultimately responsible for such indemnity is subject to a dispute betwixt the convergence and Levandowski," an Uber stabilitate filing said this week, abrogation operative the question of who overcrowd pay Google.
Levandowski is embroiled in several precedented preliminaries since existence accused of thievery 14,000 documents from Google deep-down proprietary notifying barely the company's self-driving program. A bellow brought by federal prosecutors in August, charging Levandowski with 33 counts of annexation and attempted theft of Google trade secrets, is still open. Uber, Levandowski, and Waymo, the self-driving car convergence spun out from Google, tame an beforehand dispute with Uber handing over barely $245 mimic in stock to Waymo.
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