SF News Federal Judge Blocks Trump Order Punishing Sanctuary Cities A lawsuit being led by San Francisco and Santa Clara counties sought an injunction against President Trump's executive order denying federal funds to all cities and counties that decline to cooperate with ICE, and on Thursday, a federal judge granted it.
SF News SF Federal Judge Orders Rehiring of Probationary Workers at Six Federal Agencies, Calling Firings 'a Sham' A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered six federal agencies to reinstate thousands of probationary employees who were summarily fired or laid off last month, some of them for cause.
SF Politics The Expected Mass Firing of Biden-Appointed US Attorneys Is Underway, Including Northern California’s The frankly expected firing of most US Attorneys appointed by Biden has come to pass, and our US Attorney for the Northern District of California Ismail Ramsey just got the axe.
SF Politics Alameda County Judge Up for Federal Bench Gets Grilled by Republicans Over Trump Criticism, Trans Issues Alameda County Superior Court Judge Noël Wise is in line for a big promotion to the federal judiciary, and as such, was lambasted by attention-seeking Republican senators Wednesday. But she’s still likely to be confirmed by the Democrat-controlled Senate.
SF News YouTuber Who Deliberately Crashed Airplane In 2021 Sentenced to Six Months YouTuber Trevor Jacob made a poor example of himself and YouTube stunt artists in general two years ago when, while promoting a wallet for a sponsor, he filmed a video in which he deliberately crashed a small plane in Santa Barbara County.
SF Politics Sen. Alex Padilla Has COVID, Delaying Judiciary Committee Vote on Alameda County Judge The elevation of an Alameda County Superior Court judge to the federal bench is being delayed by the fact that California Senator Alex Padilla was absent Thursday, depriving Democrats of their one-vote majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
SF Politics Adding to Biden's Diverse Slate of Judicial Nominees, Senate Confirms SF's First Openly Gay Federal Judge The San Francisco federal bench just got its first openly gay judge, as odd as that is to say in 2023. On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Biden's nomination of SF labor lawyer P. Casey Pitts to be a judge in U.S District Court.
Business & Tech Bankrupt Poop-Testing Startup uBiome Charged In $60M Fraud Scheme SF-based startup uBiome, which got plenty of attention in the last decade for its at-home fecal testing kits and trendy focus on gut health, is now the focus of a federal complaint that accuses the founders of defrauding investors and health insurers to the tune of $60 million.
SF Politics SF Judge Threatens Betsy DeVos With Jail For Violating Court Order Education Secretary Betsy DeVos ignored a court order to stop collecting certain student loan payments, and a San Francisco federal judge threatened to throw her in the slammer.
SF News Bay Area Woman Allegedly Harassed, Stalked Kardashian-Jenner Family A Bay Area woman was arrested Thursday, after a grand jury in Los Angeles indicted her for allegedly stalking and harassing members of a high-profile celebrity family. According to the indictment, which you
SF News S.F.'s Nudity Ban Could Be Overturned In Federal Court Public nudists of San Francisco have less than 15 days to put their flaccid penises under wraps. Or do they?! The fate of Scott Wiener's public nudity ban will be decided in a
SF News Mother of Kenneth Harding Sues SFPD Over Son Accidentally Shooting Himself Denika Chatman, the mother of parolee Kenneth Harding who died during a chase with San Francisco police last year in which he accidentally shot himself in the neck while apparently attempting to shoot
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink PETA Releases Statement Regarding Federal Ruling On Delicious, Succulent Foie Gras Charcuterie-haters PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) released a statement today regarding the federal ruling on California's ornamental foie-gras ban. In a written statement, PETA peta'd: "The greedy producers and gluttonous
SF News (UPDATED) Judge Vaughn Walker Rules Prop. 8 Unconstitutional Proposition 8 was ruled unconstitutional by Judge Vaughn Walker, according to New York Magazine who had early word on today's ruling. Big news: According to a source who has seen the 136-page decision,
SF News Release Confidential Prop 8 Campaign Docs, Rules Judge Walker Get ready to see some dirty laundry aired. Today Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ordered gay marriage advocacy groups to turn over campaign materials from the election fight over Proposition 8,
SF News Couple Swindles Safeway & Nordstrom Out of Beaucoup Cash San Leandro residents Amanda Mata, 20, and her boyfriend Lamar Cotton, 27, allegedly bilked Safeway out of $232,000 in an elaborate (and admittedly clever) scheme involving phony credit cards and Nordstrom gift
SF News Federal Judge Says No to Gay Marriage Ban Injunction As expected, U.S. judge in San Francisco denied an injunction yesterday on a federal lawsuit that challenged Prop 8. What does this mean? This: So, after the California Supreme court came down
SF News Judge Removes 5 Counts Against Bonds Noted steroid aficionado, alleged perjurer, and keen deer hunter Barry Bonds scored a win today when a federal judge in San Francisco dismissed five of his 15 counts. Accused of fibbing when he
SF News Pilot of the Cosco Busan Charged In Federal Court Although the National Transportation Safety Board has yet to release its report on the causes of last year's crash, today the pilot of the Cosco Busan, John Joseph Cota of Petaluma, was charged
SF News Make It Work, Bonds Judge Tells Prosecutors Today a federal judge told the prosecutors to "re-craft its perjury case against Barry Bonds." The judge on the Bonds case, Susan Illston, claims that they "improperly lumped multiple alleged offenses into each
SF News All Together Now The case becomes even more intriguing because Walker, who as far as we can tell is not now nor has ever been a Texas Ranger, has already told the Feds that they can
SF News The NSA Wiretapping Scandal: Not Just For Phone Calls Anymore Well, AT&T denied the claim but this morning, Wired News posted documents given to them by Klein of inter-office documents detailing just what the NSA was up to. These documents were
