The Verge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

First reported by the Los Angeles Times , the company agreed to pay the fine and improve the way it tracks cases and notifies workers and local health agencies. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Amazon has been ordered to pay a fine of $500,000 for hiding the number of COVID-19 cases at its California workplaces from employees.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images. After Activision Blizzard requested a stay in the discrimination case brought against it by the state of California, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) has filed its response.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The one-bedroom cottage with a woodsy vibe reminded Heather McAlpine of the home she lost to the brutal Los Angeles-area wildfires. California Attorney General Rob Bonta has warned repeatedly of the state’s anti-gouging laws, which limits price increases to no more than 10% from whatever the price was before the emergency.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against Uber and Lyft on Tuesday claiming the app-based companies are misclassifying drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. Becerra recently filed a motion for a preliminary injunction that would compel the ride-hailing companies to reclassify drivers as employees within weeks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

The company, based in Los Angeles and originally incubated at Y Combinator, says its customers — which include fashion labels like Ralph Lauren and Kangol, LVMH, crystal icon Baccarat, as well as media behemoth Pokemon — use MarqVision to scan places where their brands are most likely to be misappropriated.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The SEC accused Nikola of violating US securities law with numerous misleading statements made in 2020 about the company’s products and its future financial prospects. Earlier this month, Nikola announced that it had delivered its first two vehicles to a customer operating at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Banking laws leave business customers vulnerable to Internet fraud" (March 21, 2010, Los Angeles Times). What many businesses (and nonprofits) don't realize is that Federal law doesn't protect commercial accounts the same way it protects personal accounts. What is your bank doing to protect you?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

The company said in a regulatory filing that it has delayed production of its FF91 flagship electric vehicle due to lack of money and supply chain issues. Ford released the law enforcement version of its all-electric F-150 Lightning truck. Faraday Future is faltering— again. The big three U.S. Future of flight.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2021

Snap will suspend two anonymous messaging integrations from Snapchat after a lawsuit sought to hold them responsible for a teenager’s death, the Los Angeles Times reports. The lawsuit was filed on Monday by Kristin Bride, the mother of a teenager who died by suicide in June after being bullied on the two apps. “In

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

In case you missed it, Waymo filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Motor Vehicles in an effort to protect certain data from its driverless vehicle operations from being shared with the public. The Los Angeles Times was the first to report on the lawsuit). Is driverless vehicle data a trade secret?

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

with plans to service rooms in cities including Boston, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh (expanding from its bases in New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Miami, Denver, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.). Some of the complaints have been more public and open. The company dissolved on May 13.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

I considered a famous retailer (Nordstrom) and the city of San Francisco, but I wanted to make substantive recommendations upon the completion of the project, so I chose EuroDisney, because at the time (1994), there were rumors that the French theme park would file for bankruptcy. Jane Goodall; and Queen Elizabeth II. (5)

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Hackers were able to access files containing personal information for hundreds of thousands of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles patients with a ransomware attack that occurred in October, according to a report by The Washington Post. According to CNN, the data was limited to Planned Parenthood Los Angeles.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2022

In the late 1970s, Los Angeles was a hotbed of telephone culture: you could dial-a-joke, dial-a-horoscope, even dial-a-prayer. She took the bus to the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles, an imposing Art Deco tower with cavernous tiled hallways. But she was far from being Los Angeles’ most visible phreaker.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

Last May, Spotify filed a formal complaint against Apple with the European Union , alleging that Apple is harming consumers and stifling innovation via the 30 percent tax and other policies that raise barriers to competition. Suhauna Hussain and Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times ). Charlie Warzel and Stuart A.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As Smartmatic notes, the company is unaffiliated with Dominion and played a minimal role in the election, providing software only to Los Angeles County. Powell called the suit “another political maneuver motivated by the radical left that has no basis in fact or law.”.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

Eva Rodriguez has earnedminimum wage at a Subway franchise in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles for more than a decade. Only last year did she learn that she didnt have to labor under those conditionsa revelation that led her to accuse the franchises owner of violating numerous labor laws.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Taur , for example, is a British company that has just launched operations in Los Angeles , in large part because the U.K. The latest example was revealed in a series of regulatory filings that showed he had sold 9.6 Shareholders still have the option to file an appeal. was dragging its heels on this piece of legislation.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday targeting tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google and the pivotal internet law that provides them broad legal immunity over content posted by their users. That’s a big deal. They have a shield. They can do what they want,” Trump said Thursday.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

I thought of Peter this week while reading about a proposed new lawsuit filed on behalf of workers like him. She often lays awake at night trying to go to sleep, replaying videos that she has seen in her mind,” says the lawsuit, which was filed in a California superior court on Monday. This makes you feel ill. Gilad Edelman / Wired ).

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

The US Department of Justice is investigating Google’s massive digital advertising business, and is expected to file a lawsuit against the search giant this summer. Marc Santora at The New York Times explains: The new law, which is expected to go into effect Oct. Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times ). Gilad Edelman / Wired ).

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

The agencies reached an agreement with Harvard and MIT, who filed a lawsuit on July 8th over the policy. It’s coming first to Amazon’s grocery store in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. Tech companies had spoken out against the negative effects of the draconian policy. Monica Chin / The Verge ).

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 11, 2025

More than 160 groups nationwide rely on federal funding to investigate and file complaints on behalf of people who think they have been denied housing because of disability, race, sex, national origin, religion, or because they have children. But the law has no teeth if advocates dont have the resources to enforce it, Peattie said.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

One possibility might be a Glass-Steagall law for tech platforms, which would prohibit them them from running a platform and competing on it at the same time. Facebook filed a lawsuit against MobiBurn, an app it says harvested user data without permission. Tracy Brown / Los Angeles Times ). David McLaughlin / Bloomberg).

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s true that we have seen some apparent retaliation from Trump against social networks — the strange fair housing suit filed against Facebook last year comes to mind. And whatever Trump may think, as the law professor Kate Klonick noted , “The First Amendment protects Twitter from Trump. Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times ).

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