SF News Family Of Homeless Man Killed By SFPD Move To File Suit Against City The family of Luis Gongora, the homeless man shot and killed by SFPD in April of this year, is preparing to file a civil suit against the city. KRON4 reports that civil rights
SF News California Parent Of Paris Attack Victim Suing Twitter And Facebook For Providing 'Material Support' To ISIS Reynaldo Gonzalez, the father of Cal State Long Beach student Nohemi Gonzalez who was killed in November's terrorist attacks in Paris, is now suing Facebook, Twitter, and Google for the roles they played
SF News Shrimp Boy's Attorneys Are Done, File Motion To Quit His Appeal Case Remember how powerhouse, old-school defense attorney Tony Serra spent half of last year painting Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow as a reformed gangster with no desire but to do good in the community and
SF News Gawker Founder Defends Coverage Of Silicon Valley, Peter Thiel Declines To Debate Him Nick Denton, the Gawker founder whose suspicions were confirmed last month that a thin-skinned Silicon Valley billionaire offended by unflattering coverage was bankrolling Hulk Hogan's devastating case against his media company, spoke out
SF News Family Of Suicidal Man Who Died In SF County Jail Now Suing Last July, 50-year-old Alberto Petrolino was arrested near the Golden Gate Bridge while possibly contemplating committing suicide, and several days later he was found dead in his cell in SF County Jail. He
SF News Parents Of Kate Steinle, Woman Shot And Killed At Pier 14, File Federal Lawsuit Elizabeth Sullivan and Jim Steinle of Livermore, the parents of the 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle who was shot and killed last July while walking with her father at Pier 14, have filed a lawsuit
SF News PG&E's Lawyers Are Now Accusing Federal Prosecutors Of Lying In San Bruno Case This is rich. As PG&E awaits being vilified in front of a jury in the criminal trial pertaining to the infamous 2010 San Bruno cul de sac inferno, their lawyers are
SF News Peter Thiel Calls Funding Hulk Hogan v. Gawker Lawsuit 'Philanthropic' After speculation that appeared to verge on conspiracy theory, Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire, Facebook board member, and pledged Trump delegate, was revealed this week to have been footing the
SF News [Update] Silicon Valley Billionaire Peter Thiel Secretly Funded Hulk Hogan V. Gawker Suit In March, after a years-long case against Gawker Media, Hulk Hogan, whose legal name is Terry Bollea, was granted a $140 million jury award at the online media company's expense for its release
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Says Lawsuit Won't Deter Them From Throwing Civic Center Party News went around the gay web last week, via a Los Angeles law firm, that San Francisco's LGBT Pride celebration - the part that occurs throughout Pride weekend at Civic Center but grows
SF News Federal Prosecutors Drop Lawsuit Against Oakland's Harborside Pot Dispensary After four years of fighting back and forth, with the City of Oakland, Congresswoman Barbara Lee and many others on the side of the dispensary, the federal government has apparently dropped its lawsuit
SF News Uber Paying Off Drivers To The Tune Of $100M So They Can Keep Them As Contractors Welp, that big class-action lawsuit we've been talking about for over a year has been settled, along with a similar suit in Massachusetts, that we and a number of legal experts thought was
SF News Yep, Religious Group Now Suing Over Dolores Park Pissoir It turns out that threat of a lawsuit a couple months ago over the new Dolores Park pissoir from one conservative, anti-LGBT group, the Pacific Justice Center, has turned into a reality, and
SF News Vallejo Is Whack: Police Seriously Botched Huskins's Sexual Assault Investigation If you thought the allegations about the Vallejo Police Department's mishandling of the kidnapping of Denise Huskins last March couldn't get any worse, you were incorrect. As ABC 7 reports after reading the
SF News Inmates Now Suing Sheriff's Deputies Who Allegedly Forced Them To Brawl Behind Bars In addition to criminal charges brought against them earlier this month by District Attorney George Gascón, San Francisco Sheriff's deputies who allegedly led forced Fight Club-like matches between inmates, engaging in patterns of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrity Chef Michael Chiarello Accused Of Sexually Harassing Female And Gay Employees In SF Celebrity chef Michael Chiarello, best known nationally for his Food Network show Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello and known in the Bay Area for his Napa restaurant Bottega and his three-year-old San Francisco
SF News Uber Offers To Pay $28.5 Million To Customers, Rename 'Safe Ride Fee' To Settle Lawsuits A photo posted by Uber (@uber) on Nov 19, 2015 at 9:56am PST In order to settle two class-action lawsuits that allege misleading advertising regarding safety, Uber has offered to pay $28.
SF News Cows Not Yet Come Home, New Lawsuit Filed Against Warriors Arena Following on a lawsuit filed against UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood in Alameda County in December, claiming he overstepped his authority in negotiating with the Golden State Warriors about the construction of their planned
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Napa Restaurant Redd Sued Over Wrongful Death By Scallop Some unfortunate news out of Yountville: 10-year-old fine-dining establishment Redd, owned by chef Richard Reddington, is facing a lawsuit in the 2014 death of 61-year-old Larry Sacknoff. The former television sportscaster from San
SF News Day Around The Bay: In-N-Out Sues DoorDash California is breaking the law by failing to include updates about sex offenders on its Megan’s Law website. [KRON 4] In-N-Out is suing SF-based startup DoorDash because it uses an imitation of
SF News Oakland Takes On Monsanto In Billion Dollar PCB Pollutant Case For 50 years, St. Louis-based chemical company Monsanto contaminated the San Francisco Bay with its production of the highly toxic chemical polychlorinated biphenyl, a.k.a. PCBs. The company continued manufacturing the chemical
SF News Uber, Airbnb Execs Sued By Live-In Domestic Worker For Years Of Sexual Harassment, Wage Theft Today in San Francisco Superior Court, Julieta Yang, a 45-year-old mother of three from the Philippines filed a lawsuit alleging years of sexual abuse and wage theft as a live-in domestic worker for
SF News Family of Kathryn Steinle To File Legal Claims Against SF And Federal Officials Kathryn Steinle's parents to file legal claims against S.F., feds in Pier 14 slaying: http://t.co/2qXGMUSpBF pic.twitter.com/HcqFuC0osT— SFGate (@SFGate) September 1, 2015 by BJ Kraska The parents
SF News Women's Book Club Plans To Sue Napa Valley Wine Train For $5 Million Somewhat predictably following a media firestorm around the unceremonious removal of 11 East Bay women from the Napa Valley Wine Train for allegedly being loud whilst drinking their wine, the group has engaged
SF News 16th And Mission Developer Suing Land Owner, Project Could Be Doomed This is interesting, and may spell doom for the project that many a Mission activist would love to see doomed: The developer behind that massive, 330-unit building proposed for 16th and Mission is
