Business & Tech Judge Allows Suits to Go Forward Charging That Facebook, YouTube and Reddit Profit From Extremist Content Several lawsuits stemming directly from a 2022 mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York grocery store, which contend that social media platforms actively engage and profit from individuals spreading and consuming hate speech with deadly consequences, can move forward, a judge has ruled.
SF News Two Tenderloin Hotels and Four Residents File Lawsuit Against City Over Street Conditions Two hotels in the Tenderloin, the Phoenix and Best Western, as well as a group of residents, have filed a lawsuit against the city that's similar to one filed four years ago by UC Hastings.
SF News San Jose Sharks Face New Lawsuit Over Alleged Sexual Abuse by Youth Hockey Coach A new lawsuit alleges that a 12-year-old was sexually abused by a former youth hockey coach connected to the San Jose Sharks, and accuses the owner of negligence.
Business & Tech Elon Musk's Falling Out With Sam Altman Turns Into Lawsuit Against OpenAI Elon Musk, who helped to co-found OpenAI nine years ago, is now suing the company and its CEO Sam Altman, arguing that it has abandoned its professed mission to develop AI "for the benefit of humanity broadly."
SF News Tesla To Pay $1.5 Million After Lawsuit From 25 California Counties, Including SF, Over Illegal Dumping of Hazmat Waste A lawsuit from 25 different counties in the state, including eight in the Bay Area, claimed that Tesla violated state regulations about the proper storage, disposal and management of hazardous waste.
SF News Guest at SF Marriott Last Summer Sues Over Alleged Attack By Homeless Person A man who stayed at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis last year has filed a lawsuit against the Marriott corporation claiming negligence after he was allegedly assaulted by a person he says was homeless on hotel property.
Business & Tech GM Sues San Francisco Over Cruise Tax Bill, Which It Says Is Unfair General Motors, the parent company of autonomous taxi outfit Cruise, has filed suit against the City of San Francisco over a $108 million tax bill that it says was incorrectly charged. And this may be some sort of revenge for the city and state's treatment of the company.
Business & Tech New York Times Sues OpenAI, Microsoft Over Use of Copyrighted Content In what may prove a pivotal legal moment for the artificial intelligence industry, the New York Times has filed suit against OpenAI over the unauthorized use of years of journalistic content in the training of its generative AI models.
SF News Jewish Group Sues UC Berkeley Law School Over Student Groups' Anti-Zionism Stance A Jewish advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. has filed a lawsuit that alleges that UC Berkeley's law school has permitted the "longstanding, unchecked spread of antisemitism" among its student groups.
SF News Fight Over Late Dianne Feinstein’s Estate Gets Even Fiercer, As Daughter Allegedly Changes Locks on Marin Property Katherine Feinstein is accused of changing the locks of a Stinson Beach home from the estate and staging it for sale for $8.5 million, against a judge’s orders, according to new court documents.
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Suing City College Over Diego Rivera Mural Moving Expenses The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is suing City College of San Francisco over unpaid expenses relating to the conservation and 2021 relocation-by-truck of the massive Diego Rivera fresco titled 'Pan-American Unity.'
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elderly SF Woman Suing McDonald's Over Scalding Coffee In Similar Lawsuit to One From Early 90s McDonald's still apparently serves their drive-thru coffee exceedingly hot, and a San Francisco woman is claiming that a poorly affixed lid on a coffee cup, served to her at the Fillmore McDonald's, led to her getting serious burns, and she's now suing.
SF News Feinstein's Daughter Heads to Court With Trustees Next Week; Senator Has No Time for Questions About This It sounds like the Chronicle caught Senator Dianne Feinstein off guard this morning, getting her on the phone after a Senate committee hearing, leading to some cleanup work by her staff and a follow-up phone call.
SF News Feinstein Family Feud Heats Up With New Elder Abuse Lawsuit Against Blum Estate Trustees It's hard to know who to believe more in the unfolding family dispute involving the estate of Senator Dianne Feinstein's late husband, Richard Blum. But what's clear is there's no love lost between Feinstein, her daughter from a previous marriage, and the senator's three stepdaughters.
SF News Bay Area Vegan Cheese Company Miyoko’s Creamery Is Suing Its Founder, Alleging Trade Secret Theft The company alleges former CEO Miyoko Schinner transferred tens of thousands of documents to a non-company hard drive, physically stole unreleased products, and owes backpay on a loan, following her termination last year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trendy New STK Steakhouse Hit With Wage Theft Suit, Employees Say They Were Forced to Work With COVID Just one month after opening, buzzy nightclub-restaurant STK Steakhouse is already dogged by a class-action lawsuit over wage and tip theft, plus employees claiming they were forced to work while testing positive for COVID-19.
Business & Tech Twitter Files Its Lawsuit Against Musk In Delaware Chancery Court, Accuses Him of Creating Negative 'Public Spectacle' The promised lawsuit has been filed, and among other things, Twitter is accusing would-be buyer Elon Musk of "refus[ing] to honor his obligations to Twitter and its stockholders because the deal he signed no longer serves his personal interests."
Business & Tech Man Knocked From San Francisco Garbage Truck Can Sue Uber, Court Says An injured sanitation worker who was "doored" by an Uber passenger five years ago has the right to sue the driver and Uber, an appellate court has ruled.
Business & Tech Alphabet Hit With Racial Discrimination Lawsuit By Former Diversity Recruiter for Google A former Google employee who was tasked with hiring more Black people to the company, and who was herself fired in 2020, has filed suit against Google/Alphabet claiming she was retaliated against for calling out discriminatory practices at the company.
Business & Tech The Trump vs. Twitter Lawsuit is Happening in San Francisco, And It’s Not Going Well for Trump In a lawsuit literally named Trump v. Twitter, the former president is suing Twitter to allow him back on the platform, but his arguments are going fruitlessly in a San Francisco district court.
Business & Tech State Agency Sues Tesla Over ‘Racially Segregated Workplace’ Where Racial Slurs Are Thrown Around Commonly A California employment agency brought a pretty disturbing lawsuit against Tesla Thursday, alleging not just racial segregation at the Fremont plant, but a workplace where racial slurs were commonly scrawled on walls and spoken out loud by management.
SF News East Bay Woman Sues After BART Police Forcibly Detain Her For Fare Evasion An East Bay woman has filed a civil rights lawsuit over a December 31, 2019 incident in which she was forcibly detained and bloodied by BART police officers over fare evasion at San Leandro's Bayfair Station.
Business & Tech San Francisco Attorney Intends to File 400 Separate Sexual Assault and Harassment Cases Against Uber A personal injury firm in San Francisco has filed 85 separate lawsuits on behalf of women who say they were sexually assaulted, falsely imprisoned, kidnapped, harassed, and/or stalked by Uber drivers, and they say they have over 300 more to go.
Business & Tech Vallejo Woman Sues Lyft Over Alleged Kidnapping By Driver With Meth Pipe A Vallejo woman has filed suit against Lyft over an April 2019 ride gone wrong in which she had to climb out of the car's window to escape a creepy driver.
SF Politics East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell Sues Trump and Giuliani Over Capitol Riot Adding to the list of lawsuits Donald Trump will be facing in the coming year or three, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin) has filed a civil suit against the former president and his co-conspirators for inciting the January 6 riot at the Capitol.