SF News Skee-Ball Inc. No Longer Cool With Drinking Skee-Ball League The makers (and legal copyright holders) of Skee-Ball games have decided they are no longer kosher with a national drinking and rolling league. After nine years, the nearly century-old Skee-Ball Inc. is suing
SF News Gay Sailor Sues America's Cup For Wrongful Termination Openly gay boat captain Larry Jacobson, who was employed by the America's Cup from June to September of last year, is suing the Cup's organizers for discriminatory treatment and wrongful termination. Jacobson, who
SF News Greg Gopman, Startup Founder Who Lambasted Homeless People, Is Getting Sued Just days after we wondered what despiser of the undomiciled Greg Gopman was up to, we have our answer: he's busy getting sued. Former AngelHack CEO Gopman, as you know, authored a Facebook
SF News Abercrombie Wrongly Fired Muslim For Hijab, Rules Judge Back in 2010, Hani Khan, an 18-year-old Muslim, claimed Abercrombie & Fitch fired her for wearing a head scarf at work. Well, today a judge agreed with her. U.S. District Judge Yvonne
SF News Asiana Suing KTVU Over Pilot-Naming Snafu [Update] Asiana Airlines said today that they will sue Bay Area station KTVU for accidentally broadcasting the now-infamous fake pilot names of flight 214. This comes one week after the airline caused the death
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Monster Energy Drink Is Suing S.F. for Being Totally Lame Monster Beverage, the makers of the caffeine-laden energy drink that someone, somewhere, still buys, are suing San Francisco city attorney Dennis Herrera for hounding them in his bid to address safety issues around
SF News Instagram Hit With First Class Action Lawsuit In the wake of Instagram's TOS policy change — which prompted loads of arguably unnecessary and affected handwringing — the photo filter/sharing social media company has been hit with its first civil lawsuit. San
SF News Porn Company Sued By Penis Injector A man who used to work for a noted San Francisco adult film studio is now suing the porn purveyor's company for emotional distress and related health problems after pricking himself while injecting
SF News $1 Million Awarded To Pepper Sprayed UC Davis Students The University of California will fork over $30,000 to each of the 21 UC Davis students pepper sprayed during last November's Occupy demonstration, "with and an additional $250,000 for their attorneys
SF News Apple's $1 Billion Triumph: Jury Rules Samsung Infringed On Apple Patents Last yesterday, a federal jury found that Samsung had indeed infringed upon Apple's smartphone and tablet patents and ordered the Korean electronics maker to pay Apple over $1 billion in damages. As the
SF News NYC Man Sues Apple Because Siri Doesn't Understand Him Those of us with an iPhone 4S boasting Apple's personal-assistant Siri, we understand the frustration when the nice lady inside our phone doesn't grasp a word we're saying. However, one New York man
SF News Frenchman, Caught Peeing In Garden By Street View, Sues Google A perturbed frenchman, caught peeing in his garden by Google's popular Street View feature, is suing the company for humiliation and invasion of privacy. The photo, posted online, has reportedly made him the
SF News LA Dodgers: Bryan Stow Partially Responsible for Attack Citing his blood alcohol level at the time of the attack, an attorney for the Los Angeles Dodgers plans to partially blame Bryan Stow for the brutal attacked that left him in a
SF News Family Of Woman Killed By Muni Bus To Sue S.F. The family of Emily Dunn, the 23-year-old who was struck and killed by a Muni bus driving an improvised route in the Castro last August, will sue San Francisco. The Examiner reports: "Michael
SF News Judge Rules Against Same-Sex Marriage Ban; Judge Walker's Ruling Valid Chief Judge Ware has ruled against anti-marriage ilk, throwing out the inane argument that Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling against Prop 8 was unconstitutional since he is a homosexual." Their complaints, if you recall,
SF News Eagle Tavern Update: Landlord Files Eviction Lawsuit Bay Area Reporter has some sad news: Eagle Tavern owner John Gardiner received an unlawful detainer lawsuit from property owner John Nikitopoulos today, 4/20. What does this mean for the troubled SoMa
SF News Fashion Feud: Levi's Suing Dolce & Gabbana "Girl, hold my earrings," said San Francisco-based Levi's who filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco last week against Dolce & Gabbana. It seems, according to SF Weekly, the Italian house
SF News Fishermen Awarded $6M For Cosco Busan Spill Around 120 local fishermen will split $3.65 of a $6 million award in damages won though a class action lawsuit against the parties at fault for the horrific 2007 Cosco Busan oil
SF News Wells Fargo Ordered to Pay $200M for Overdraft-Fee Nonsense According to the Wall Street Journal, Wells Fargo has been ordered "pay more than $200 million to compensate customers who the judge said were improperly charged millions in overdraft fees." Today, Judge William
SF News Cellular Telephone Industry Association Suing S.F. Oh dear. Folks from the Cellular Telephone Industry Association, a wireless "nonprofit" group established in 1984, is in the process of suing San Francisco over our (alarmist?) Cell Phone Right-To-Know ordinance, according to
SF News SF Bay Guardian Sued By SF Weekly's Banks Mommy and daddy, we wish you'd stop fighting. Is it because we're bad? Do you hate us? We promise to be good if you stop hating each other. Because when we read this:
SF News SF Weekly Not Going Out of Business, OK! Despite being ordered by a court to hand over half of its revenue to SF Bay Guardian for illegally selling ads below cost, SF Weekly is not -- not! -- going out of
SF News SFBG To Seize SF Weekly's Rent Check? Here's a morsel of alt weekly-vs.-alt weekly news to fill your belly: last Tuesday local alt weekly SF Bay Guardian was "granted its motion to intercept the income of the SF Weekly.
SF News ACLU Files Lawsuit Against California's Mandatory DNA Collection When you're arrested for a felony in the state of California, so is your DNA. The Golden State takes a DNA sample from everyone arrested for a felony, any felony, whether or not
SF News ABC Drops Suit Against GAMH The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, a malignant cancer attacking San Francisco's nightlife scene, has dropped its "ambiguous" suit against Great American Music Hall. It seems the ABC was upset at the O'Farrell