SF News Millennium Tower's Earthquake Fitness Models May Not Have Been Accurate Residents of Millennium Tower have one more reason to shake their fists at the sky and/or file another lawsuit as a report comes to light from a structural engineering expert that suggests
SF News Google Asking Judge To Keep Uber's Autonomous Cars Off The Road The latest salvo in what could be a very long and drawn out battle between Alphabet-owned self-driving car startup Waymo and Uber comes in a court filing formally asking a federal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tacolicious Agrees To Settle Class-Action Lawsuit By Former Employees For $900,000 Tacolicious, the growing taco enterprise from founder Joe Hargrave that now has five Bay Area locations including three in SF, is opting to settle out of court a lawsuit originally brought by two
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Babu Ji Closes NYC Flagship Location Amid Wage Theft Lawsuit The owners of hit New York City Indian restaurant Babu Ji, which expanded in November to San Francisco, are closing their East Coast location amid a wage theft lawsuit, the second being faced
SF News ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Trump On Behalf Of Three Middle Eastern Students The ACLU of Northern California filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of three students at California universities who have been living here legally with F-1 student visas who are now barred from
SF News Local Versace Store Accused Of Having Secret Code For Black Customers A Versace retail outlet in the Bay Area is being sued by a former employee who was fired, he says, after just two weeks. What's more, he says he was discriminated
SF News Families Of Three Orlando Shooting Victims File Suit Against Twitter, Google, And Facebook The families of three of the people killed in the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June Tevin Eugene Crosby, Juan Guerrero, and Javier Jorge-Reyes filed suit this week in
SF News Attorneys For Ghost Ship's Derick Almena: 'He Should Not Be Made A Scapegoat' The legal team that will be representing Derick Ion Almena, the founder of Oakland's Ghost Ship collective and the man many say is responsible for the unsafe construction, wiring, and lack
SF News Civil Claim Filed Against Both The City And Transbay Terminal Developer In Millennium Tower Morass Another week, another legal filing regarding the Leaning Tower of San Francisco, a.k.a. Millennium Tower which has also sunk into the ground a reportedly unexpected sixteen inches since it was completed
SF News Flywheel Taxi (Née DeSoto) Sues Uber For Predatory Pricing Uber is on the receiving end of another lawsuit this week, and this time it's not from the ride-hail company's "driver-partners". Rather, according to the
SF News Family Of Jessica Williams Sues SFPD For Wrongful Death The fatal May shooting of an unarmed woman in a stolen vehicle in the Bayview that led directly to the resignation of SFPD Chief Greg Suhr has now led to a wrongful death
SF News Theranos Deathwatch: First Major Investor Sues Company For 'Series Of Lies' The walls continue to close in around Theranos and it's founder Elizbaeth Holmes as the first — and probably not the last — of a group of major investors who pumped a cumulative
SF News Millennium Tower Developer Now Blames 'Reckless Behavior' Of Transit Center Developers On Sinking Tower The blame game continues in the saga of Millennium Tower, which we learned last month had sunk 16 inches into the ground since it was completed seven years ago, and is also tilting
SF News Attorneys File $66 Million Civil Suit In Oakland Police Scandal; DA Formally Charges Two Attorneys for Jasmine Abuslin a.k.a. Celeste Guap filed the first of what may be several lawsuits Friday in Oakland, a $66 million civil damages claim. As KQED reports, this is likely
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Burma Superstar Employee And Plaintiff In Class Action Details Brutal Work Conditions Former dishwasher and line cook at Burma Superstar, William Navarette, who is one of the lead plaintiffs in a class action suit against the local chain that was filed last week, has revealed
SF News Millennium Tower Drama Heats Up As Building Inspectors Called To Testify, Transbay Authority Issues New Denial Tuesday's press conference by Supervisor Aaron Peskin in which he vaguely pointed fingers and said that "political interference" of some kind may have been a factor in the approvals
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burma Superstar Owners Sued In Class Action By Kitchen Workers The Bay Area Burmese mini-chain Burma Superstar is the subject of a class-action lawsuit filed this week in Alameda County by three of the chain's employees on behalf of
SF News Now PG&E Wants Its Conviction Thrown Out In San Bruno Blast Case As most of you know, in September of 2010, an explosion rocked San Bruno, killing eight people, injuring 58 more, and destroying 38 homes in the process. On August 9, 2016, a jury
SF News Gay Widower Of Former KRON 4 Employee Sues After Being Denied Pension Benefit A pending legal case was brought to our attention this week by LGBT civil rights group the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) in which SF resident David Reed is suing the parent
SF News Founders Used 'Sham' Startup's $12.5 Million Investments As 'Personal Piggy Bank', Lawsuit Alleges Two brothers purportedly developing an augmented reality helmet for motorcyclists appear to have merely used their company's investments to augment their own personal realities, paying for apartments, lavish meals, and more
SF News Homeowners In Sinking, Tilting Millennium Tower File Class-Action Lawsuit Seeking $500 Million After news broke that the 58-story, 419-residence Millennium Tower, completed in 2009, had sunk 16 inches in height and tilted two inches northwest, pissed and panicked homeowners were pretty sure to
SF News PG&E Fined Only $3 Million In San Bruno Criminal Case, Convicted On 6 of 12 Charges In the case of a devastating explosion that killed eight people, injured 58 others, and destroyed 38 homes in a San Bruno neighborhood six years ago, utility company PG&E has been
SF News Millennium Tower May End Up Sinking Almost Three Feet, Says Expert In what could end up becoming the most expensive real estate legal battle in SF history, the Millennium Tower sink-and-tilt debacle deepens with a further look by the Chron's
SF News San Jose Police Face Legal Battle Over Gay Cruising Bathroom Sting Harkening back to the 1950s, the San Jose Police Department conducted a sting operation between 2014 and 2015 in which an undercover decoy officer was used to lure unsuspecting gay men into a
SF News Mission Beating Victim Stanislav Petrov Files Civil Rights Suit Against Alameda County Deputies Stanislav Petrov, the man who allegedly led Alameda County sheriff's deputies on a high-speed, 30-mile chase last November from San Leandro to San Francisco's Mission District and
