[BurgerTiime]

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/loca...-More-for-Violating-Settlement-438639473.html
$15 million more. That's how much San Francisco and Los Angeles prosecutors say Uber needs to pay for violating a prior legal settlement.

The two counties made their case before a judge in San Francisco Friday. This all stems from a case settled last year when Uber already paid the two counties $10 million.

In that settlement, Uber also agreed to fix violations, including misleading advertising on driver background checks and charging airport service fees.

The District Attorney's Office on Friday argued Uber violated that settlement by failing to submit a certification of compliance by an April deadline. Records also show drivers were making unauthorized trips to the airport, the DA's Office said.

• Uber's attorney admits the company did miss the compliance date because of changes that occurred at the company during that time, but asked the judge to separate any possible late penalty from the issue of compliance.

If the judge finds them guilty, the ride-share company would have to fork over another $15 million to the counties.

The judge is expected to make a ruling next Friday.

 

[Cabby]

Good. Take the money from that greedy company while it still there. Why would anybody worry about if Saudi Fund or Google or Gavin Newsom would lose some money on this scheme . It is peanuts for this investors.

 

[GypsyJoker]

Q: What do they call 100 lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean?

A: A good start!

I think of this joke whenever I hear about these nonsense lawsuits. Uber is supposed to pay $15M because a couple of drivers illegally picked up riders at SFO? Since when is Uber responsible for a driver's malfeasance/ignorance/mistakes? Isn't it enough that the offending drivers got traffic tickets for their violations? Sheeeeesh!

 

[Mole]

Q: What do they call 100 lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean?

A: A good start!

I think of this joke whenever I hear about these nonsense lawsuits. Uber is supposed to pay $15M because a couple of drivers illegally picked up riders at SFO? Since when is Uber responsible for a driver's malfeasance/ignorance/mistakes? Isn't it enough that the offending drivers got traffic tickets for their violations? Sheeeeesh!

Why is it people and corporations think they should not follow the law and not be subject to penalties?

 

[Gibman73]

Lawyers are like fidget spinners for the wealthy, once you start you can't stop.

Spend a year with a hammer in your hand, at some point you'll end up in jail. Spend a year with a lawyer on retainer, at some point you'll end up richer.