For the second year in a row, a co-founder of the summertime TBD Fest has drawn complaints of unpaid bills.
Katrina Arnaud, a notary public with an office in East Sacramento, filed suit Dec. 9 in Sacramento Superior Court over a personal loan she made to Clay Nutting, co-founder of the West Sacramento music and art festival.
In her suit, first reported Monday by the Sacramento Bee, Arnaud seeks the return of $200,000, plus interest and the cost of the suit.
Arnaud says she made her original loan…
Cable, phone and Internet providers are among the most disliked companies by customers, with Comcast being tied for second-to-last among all major companies for consumer satisfaction.
That's according to the American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) year-end report, which analyzed how customers rated industries and companies from the fourth quarter of 2014 to the end of Q3 2015.
The report surveys roughly 70,000 customers, and then assigns industries and companies a score of between 1 to 100.
Philadelphia-based…
BMW might use the celebration of its centenary next year to show a concept with nearly production-ready autonomous technology.
Women who work in California will have the strongest equal pay protection in the nation after Jan. 1.
They will be allowed to sue under pay discrimination laws if they can prove a man at the same job in the same business makes more.
The new law also eliminates a "same establishment" requirement for workplaces, which didn't necessarily allow women to compare their salaries to those of men working at the same business. It outlaws retaliation for inquiring about other employees' wages or against employees…
Cisco Systems has won a patent dispute that reversed a $64 million judgment against the San Jose-based networking giant.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit stated that Cisco was not liable for directly infringing on a patent held by Commil USA LLC for WiFi technology, according to Reuters. The suit spent eight years in litigation and included a stop at the U.S. Supreme Court in May, where the case was sent back to the Federal Circuit.
The Recorder initially reported the judgment…
Poland gets Tesla Superchargers. Pedestrians get blamed for most pedestrian crashes. BMW's long list of awards includes many for i3 and i8.
A south St. Louis bar is asking a circuit court judge to block the city’s smoking ban.
Herbert Krischke’s The Trophy Room, 5099 Arsenal St., and other bars were granted a five-year exemption from the city’s smoking ban, which went into effect in 2011.
But those exemptions expire Jan. 1, 2016.
Krischke brought suit Dec. 24 against the city, claiming the ban is unconstitutional and that it unfairly grants exemptions to casinos.
The suit, filed by John Steward of Meyerkord & Meyerkord LLC,…
BMW will bring a Vision Car to the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show. It will feature Airtouch, a 3D gesture control system with enhanced interactivity.
BMW's next i Project EV could be an i6, which would be a plug-in vehicle about the size of a 3-Series.
Clifford Levine, a director of Pittsburgh law firm Cohen & Grigsby PC, has been politically active on the local, state and national levels for decades as an attorney and a fundraiser. Levine is profiled in the Business Times’ Personalities of Pittsburgh feature, but here’s more from the interview, where the Buffalo native talks about coming to Pittsburgh, the cases that put him on the map as a lawyer and his best tip for managing a busy schedule.
How did you wind up in Pittsburgh?
I was at…
Mayor-elect Jim Strickland is eliminating 10 city positions in order to fund the salary increases for his new C-Suite.
Effective Jan. 1, Strickland eliminated two jobs with the Memphis & Shelby County Music Commission, whose job is to preserve and promote Memphis music locally and throughout the world. In his years as city councilman, Strickland has consistently lobbied to eliminate the commission.
Strickland also eliminated deputy director positions for public works and parks, as well as the city…
A configurator leak purports to show the new BMW M760i, a 624-horsepower flagship 7 Series intended to compete with the Mercedes-AMG S63 and Audi S8.
Though business groups defeated many attempts at additional regulation this year, a number of new laws deserve attention in 2016.
“The stuff around the edges still matters, especially with labor and employment,” said Erika Frank, vice president and general counsel at the California Chamber of Commerce, an organization that helps employers comply with state laws.
Here is a rundown:
Minimum wage
California’s minimum wage rises to $10 in 2016, due to legislation that was approved two years…
The civil penalty concerns 2014 and 2015 Minis that were not recalled soon enough after failing to meet U.S. side-impact crash protection standards.
