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.
SF News San Francisco Settles Lawsuit Over Dementia Patient at SF General Found Dead In Stairwell In a case all too similar to one five years earlier, the city and Zuckerberg SF General Hospital have agreed to settle with the family that brought a lawsuit over the death of a woman who got accidentally locked in a stairwell on the hospital grounds and was later found dead.
Business & Tech 10 (Red) States Are Suing Google Over What They Say Is an Online Advertising Monopoly The end of 2020 is arriving with a slew of legal headaches for Big Tech. And a week after we learned of twin antitrust lawsuits against Facebook being brought by state attorneys general and the FTC in tandem, we learn that a group of states is also filing suit against Google.
Business & Tech Self-Driving Car Engineer Anthony Levandowksi Gets 18-Month Sentence For Stealing Waymo Technology One time Google/Alphabet employee Anthony Levandowski, who jumped ship to take a generous offer from Uber in 2016 that included $680 million for his self-driving truck startup Otto, has just been sentenced to 18 months in jail for stealing trade secrets.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Like Chez Panisse, The Cliff House Is Suing Its Insurance Company Insurers are trying to deny claims being made by restaurants on their business-interruption policies — claims they are making because the coronavirus pandemic has clearly interrupted their business.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission LGBTQ Bar Jolene's Becomes Subject of Lawsuit, Online Claims Of Abuse A bar that seemed when it opened 18 months ago to be a prototypical San Francisco safe space for queer and transgender folks has been hit with a lawsuit pitting a former co-owner against her former business partner, as well as a social media boycott campaign that claims issues of systemic racism.
SF News Passengers From Grand Princess Mexico Cruise Sue Company for Negligence In the second lawsuit to be filed by passengers aboard a Princess Cruise Lines cruise from San Francisco who were exposed to the coronavirus, passengers who sailed from SF to Mexico and back in mid-February are suing the company for negligence.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Current and Former Burma Superstar Employees Win $1.3M In Class Action A four-year-old case of alleged wage theft and worker mistreatment at the Burma Superstar restaurant chain has come to an end, with the owners of the chain settling with current and former kitchen workers for $1.3 million.
Business & Tech Former Google Engineer Fired Over Sexist Memo Drops Lawsuit James Damore, the widely reviled former Google engineer whose 2017 firing became a cause célèbre for conservatives and far-right pundits who hate diversity quotas, has abruptly dropped his lawsuit against the company, possibly because of some quiet settlement.
SF News Grand Princess Passengers Sue Cruise Line For Negligence The first of what will likely be a tsunami of COVID-19-related lawsuits against cruise ship companies came Wednesday when nine Northern California plaintiffs filed suit against Princess Cruise Lines and parent company Carnival Corp.
Business & Tech Ex-Uber Exec Pleads Guilty to Stealing Google’s Self-Driving Car Trade Secrets Wunderkind engineer Anthony Levandowski pled guilty to stealing Google’s trade secrets on his way out the door, but it’s hard to think justice has been done when he got let off on 32 of 33 counts.
Business & Tech Lyft Is Being Sued By 20 Victims In Second Sexual-Assault Suit A second lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Lyft in a case involving 20 cases of sexual assault involving drivers. And this suit joins a separate one filed in September by the same law firm that covers 14 other cases of assault.
SF News Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting Survivors File Lawsuit Against Organizers Survivors of the July 28 mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival are filing a lawsuit this week claiming "negligent security measures" led to the shooting that killed three and injured 14 others.
Business & Tech Lyft Hit With Sexual Assault Lawsuit From 14 Different Women Lyft has allegedly received more than 100 rape and assault claims in California alone, and the victims say the company "chooses to stonewall" on prosecuting drivers. Now 14 women are suing.
SF News Millennium Tower Homeowners Receive 'Significant Payments' In Settlement As Foundation Work Moves Forward Condo owners at the leaning and tilting Millennium Tower are getting big payouts as the developer and the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) are settling around 200 lawsuits this week.
SF News Appeal To Decriminalize Sex Work In California Moves To Court The Erotic Service Provider Legal, Educational, and Research Project filed a federal lawsuit back in 2015, challenging a 145-year-old California law that makes sex work illegal. On Thursday, attorney Louis Serkin, representing the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Class Action Complaint Filed Against Over A Dozen SF And NY Restaurateurs Over No-Tipping Policies Bay Area restaurants Bar Agricole, Trou Normand, Comal, Camino, as well as New York restaurant groups and chefs including David Chang and the Momofuku group, Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park, and famed
SF News Judge Tosses Berkeley College Republicans' Lawsuit Against School Lost in the mercurial leadup to and catastrophic flop of Berkeley’s late September “Free Speech Week” was the footnote that two conservative student organizations have had a lawsuit against UC Berkeley arguing
SF News San Francisco Is The First City To Sue Equifax San Francisco became the first city to sue Equifax on behalf of 15 million Californians affected by their much reported data breach. City Attorney Dennis Herrera wrote in a statement, "Equifax’s incompetence
SF News Dreamers File Lawsuit Against Trump Administration's Move to End DACA The resistance to Trump's rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (or DACA) program continues today as San Diego-based attorney Dulce Garcia files a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court against the
SF News SF Republican Attorney Takes On James Damore Case, Suggests Possible Class-Action Against Google The latest in the story of fired Google engineer James Damore is that he's hired a prominent conservative lawyer from San Francisco who was shortlisted for a possible post in President Trump's Justice
SF News SF And California File Coordinated Lawsuits Against Federal Government Over Trump's Sanctuary City Threats In a second attempt to thwart the Trump Administration's efforts to punish so-called sanctuary jurisdictions and force them to comply with federal immigration enforcement efforts, the City of San Francisco and the State
SF News Key Uber Investor Sues Travis Kalanick To Get Him Off The Company's Board Fasten your seatbelts, Uber watchers. The company's ride is about to get a good bit rougher. Benchmark Capital, an early investor in Uber which maintains a seat on Uber's board of directors, is
