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.
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.
