--- title: Luminar founder Austin Russell agrees to accept subpoena... description: Luminar founder Austin Russell has agreed to accept an electronic subpoena for information on his phone as part of the lidar company's bankruptcy proceedings.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/luminar-founder-austin-russell-agrees-to-accept-subpoena-in-bankruptcy-case-funnnjng2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Luminar founder Austin Russell agrees to accept subpoena in bankruptcy case | daily.dev og:description: Luminar founder Austin Russell has agreed to accept an electronic subpoena for information on his phone as part of the lidar company's bankruptcy proceedings.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/luminar-founder-austin-russell-agrees-to-accept-subpoena-in-bankruptcy-case-funnnjng2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/funNNjNg2.png og:image:alt: Luminar founder Austin Russell agrees to accept subpoena in bankruptcy case og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Luminar founder Austin Russell agrees to accept subpoena in bankruptcy case **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Luminar founder Austin Russell has agreed to accept an electronic subpoena for information on his phone as part of the lidar company's bankruptcy proceedings. The agreement follows accusations that Russell avoided process servers at his Florida mansion. Luminar filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December after losing major contracts with Volvo and Mercedes-Benz, and is now selling its lidar assets to Quantum Computing Inc. for $22 million, with an auction scheduled for late January. Russell, who resigned as CEO following an ethics inquiry, previously attempted to buy the company and remains interested in bidding for its lidar assets through his new venture, Russell AI Labs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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