Business & Tech Feds’ Blockbuster Antitrust Suit Against Google Is Underway, Could (Maybe) Break Up Google As We Know It In what is likely the most significant tech trial of the modern internet era, the U.S. Department of Justice is arguing that Google has grown into an “illegal monopoly” for search and internet ad sales that ought to be broken up.
SF News Two Congressional Reps Call for DOJ Probe Into Scandal-Plagued Antioch Police Department As the Antioch Police Department faces a slew of allegations of wrongdoing from distributing cocaine, to accepting bribes, to having a trove of racist text messages recently exposed, two Bay Area congressional reps are calling for a Department of Justice investigation.
SF News Biden Chooses Berkeley Attorney (and Mohammed Nuru’s Lawyer!) to Be New U.S. Attorney The prestigious position of U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California has gone to Ismail Ramsey of the Berkeley-based criminal law firm Ramsey & Ehrlich, and yes, he’s the same guy who defended Mohammed Nuru last year.
Business & Tech Apple Clashes With Justice Department Yet Again Over iPhone Backdoor A case backed by Attorney General William Barr is escalating quickly at the Department of Justice that will once again pit Apple against the federal government in a fight over smartphone privacy.
SF News Department Of Justice Presses Facebook For Information On 'Anti-Administration Activists' The Department of Justice is digging deep into the private accounts of a few Facebook users, as it was revealed today that they're currently probing for information on several "anti-administration activists who have
SF News Department Of Justice Report Finds SFPD Bias But Carefully Avoids Alleging Racism A US Department of Justice report requested by city officials including Mayor Lee that was approved in February and released yesterday describes, in nearly 400 pages with 94 findings and 272 recommendations, a
SF News Could An App Stop Racist Policing? It's difficult to overstate technology's importance in the Black Lives Matter movement. Bystander cell phone video has made it harder, if somehow still not impossible, to ignore the seemingly endless killings of African
SF News SF Attorney Goes After United, American, And Delta Airlines For Possible Price-Fixing San Francisco attorney Joseph Alioto says it began on April 1st. On that day, he told CBS 5's Consumer Watch, United, American, and Delta airlines changed a policy that automatically charged the lowest
SF News DOJ Review Of SFPD Won't Examine Mario Woods Killing Specifically, Recommendations Not Enforceable #SF mayor Ed Lee on federal voluntary review of #SFPD pic.twitter.com/XeKvUOS6hT— Jonah Owen Lamb (@jonahowenlamb) February 1, 2016 News broke on Sunday that the Department of Justice would conduct "[a]
SF News Following Fatal Shooting Caught On Video, Department Of Justice Announces 'Comprehensive Review' Of San Francisco Police Policies A little more than a week after San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee called for a federal investigation into the San Francisco Police Department's caught-on-video shooting of Mario Woods, he has his answer: The
SF News Apple, Google, Yahoo, Genentech in Antitrust Probe Re: Hiring Practices Some of the largest employers in the Bay Area are being investigated by the Department of Justice to determine if they have been in cahoots not to recruit or hire away each others'