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
SF News Berkeley Student Attacked During Milo Yiannopoulos Protest Drops $23M Lawsuit Republican-leaning UC Berkeley undergrad Kiara Robles has reportedly dropped a $23 million lawsuit that was filed against the university on her behalf by attorneys Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch and Michael Kolodz, in
SF News Antioch Woman Who Led Class-Action Bias Suit Against Walmart Dies At 67 Betty Dukes, the woman who led a class-action civil rights lawsuit against Walmart that reached the Supreme Court in 2011, has died at age 67. As the Associated Press reports, Dukes passed away
SF News Uber Fires Self-Driving Car Exec Anthony Levandowski Over Google Lawsuit Anthony Levandowski, a vice president of technology at Uber and reported close pal of CEO Travis Kalanick, has been terminated from the position he's held just over a year, originally heading up the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Woman Sues Jelly Belly, Didn't Know Beans Contained Sugar This week's Most Absurd Lawsuit award goes to a suit filed by one Jessica Gomez of San Bernardino County in a California state court alleging that the Northern California-based Jelly Belly company misled
SF News Uber Changes Tune, Threatens To Fire Self-Driving Exec If He Doesn't Waive His Fifth Amendment Rights In a somewhat surprising turn of events this week, Uber's General Counsel Salle Yoo sent self-driving car division executive Anthony Levandowski a sternly worded letter, dated May 15, asking him to waive his
SF News Judge Refers Waymo V. Uber Case For Possible Criminal Investigation An initial decision has come down from a federal judge in the case brought by Google's self-driving car division Waymo against competitor Uber, and the judge has denied Uber's efforts to avoid having
SF News San Francisco Sues Uber To Get Local Driver Information We first heard about it last week, and now City Attorney Dennis Herrera makes it official, filing a lawsuit to compel Uber to hand over the names and addresses of all its local
SF News Dublin Family Suing BART For $3 Million Over Mob Attack The first precursor to a lawsuit, which could be one of several or many to be filed in the high-profile swarm robbery two weeks ago that left multiple BART passengers injured and seven
SF News Peer Review Engineer From Millennium Tower Project Says He Did Not Consider Transbay Center Impacts At a Board of Supervisors committee hearing Friday, one of the engineers tasked with reviewing the foundation of the now sinking Millennium Tower when it was in the design and construction process testified
SF News Airbnb And HomeAway Settle With SF, Will Require Hosts To Register With City Before Posting Airbnb and HomeAway announced Monday that they are dropping a lawsuit that was challenging San Francisco's ordinance that penalizes them for the scofflaw behavior of their users. As part of the settlement agreement,
SF News Self-Driving Car Guru Anthony Levandowski Steps Aside From Lead Role At Uber Embattled self-driving car division head Anthony Levandowski is stepping back from his role leading Uber's autonomous vehicle efforts pending the outcome of that court battle involving his former employer, Google/Alphabet, and some
SF News Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration's Effort To Withhold Funds From Sanctuary Cities A federal judge in San Francisco has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against an executive order signed by President Trump in January threatening to withhold federal funding from cities that do not provide
SF News 'Hot Cop Of The Castro' Chris Kohrs Settles Civil Case In 2015 Hit And Run This is just a brief update in the ongoing legal proceedings against Hot Cop of the Castro Christopher Kohrs relating to a hit-and-run incident in North Beach shortly after Thanksgiving 2015, which injured
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Hong Kong Lounge II Owner Sentenced To Six Months In A Halfway House The ex-owner of Hong Kong Lounge and Hong Kong Lounge II in the Richmond, 58-year-old Ming Lian Zhou, received a sentence Tuesday of six months in communal confinement in a halfway house, followed
