SF News SF And LA District Attorneys: 'Some Uber Drivers Are Murderers And Felons' According to a new amended complaint by the district attorneys of San Francisco and Los Angeles, Uber's background-check method is inferior to that of regular taxi companies, and it failed to catch the
SF News City Settles For $20K With Cyclist Beaten By Police At Valencia Gardens Though it seems like a fairly paltry sum of money, the City Attorney's office has settled with a man who lives at the Valencia Gardens housing complex who claims he was brutalized and
SF News Judge Recommends $7M Fine, Suspension For Uber Over Skirting California Regulations In a ruling by an administrative law judge over claims by the California Public Utilities Commission that Uber had refused to provide necessary information to regulators, Uber is being fined $7.3 million
SF News Another Worry For Uber: Suit Finds Yellow Cab Drivers Are Employees It's seeming more and more inevitable that the California courts will find that drivers for Uber and Lyft, and likely the independent contractors who do things like your Instacart shopping and Washio laundry
SF News Now Uber Wants To Track Your Location Even When App Is Not Running Rapidly expanding, IPO-hinting "technology platform" Uber makes way too many headlines these days. But in the case of their new privacy policy, due to take effect July 15, it feels like they may
SF News Bayview Group Threatened With Arrest While Shooting Rap Video Now Suing SFPD Remember that apparent arrest of over a dozen guys in the Bayview that was recorded on video because they were actually in the middle of shooting a video at the time? Well, now
SF News This May Be San Francisco's Most Disgusting Apartment Building That seedy looking apartment building you see on the right as you're coming off the Central Freeway off-ramp at Octavia is actually more terrible inside than you already imagined. Some 40 tenants are
SF News After Lyft And Uber, Now Postmates And Caviar Delivery People Are Suing To Be Made Employees Following on the potentially major lawsuits against Uber and Lyft about their classification of drivers as independent contractors, delivery people working for services like Postmates, Instacart, and Caviar have also filed suit to
Arts & Entertainment Ashley Judd Determined To Sue Her Twitter Bullies Calling recent rashes of bullying on social media "gender violence," actress Ashley Judd is pressing charges against multiple Twitter users who came after her in the wake of some comments she made about
SF News HIV-Positive Fireman Sues City Over Harassment A San Francisco firefighter who thinks he may have contracted HIV while in the line of duty says that the subsequent harassment by fellow firefighters and mistreatment by the SFFD amounted to discrimination.
SF News Lawsuit Contends Purina's Beneful Dog Food Is Killing Dogs A class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco alleges that a man's three dogs were sickened and died after two months of eating Purina's Beneful dog food and the firm handling
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Company That Helps Boost Yelp Pages With Positive Reviews Being Sued By Yelp Well, this is rich. Yelp now has a lawsuit against a company that's been getting paid by businesses to game the Yelp system and flood their pages with positive reviews. Yelp of course
SF News SF, LA District Attorneys Suing Uber Uber, recently embroiled in a scandal involving not-so-veiled threats against unfriendly journalists, accused of operating illegally by the city of Portland, banned in Delhi, and ordered to halt operations in Spain and Thailand,
SF News Racism Suit Filed Against Market Street Travelodge by Eric Wuestewald Prominent New Orleans funk guitarist Leo Nocentelli has filed a racial discrimination suit against the Market Street Travelodge hotel following a particularly nasty disagreement over credit cards and incidentals that
SF News Socialites Trevor And Alexis Traina Sued By Former Maid Over Fall Trevor Traina, son of S.F. grand dame Dede Wilsey both of whom were immortalized in this fantastic dinner scene from Sean Wilsey's Oh the Glory Of It All in which wicked stepmother
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Elite Reviewers Suing Company (Again) For Unpaid Wages, Claiming They Are Real Writers [Updated] People who are such obsessive, prodigious users of Yelp that they gain Elite status and claim firsties on reviewing every food truck and Muni stop, are taking part in a class action lawsuit
SF News AIDS Healthcare Foundation Suing City Over Castro Pharmacy Snub The Los Angeles-based non-profit AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is suing the City of San Francisco, as they announced Monday, over what they see as their right to relocate and consolidate their two local
SF News Muni Locks Down Potentially Dangerous Front-Facing Bus Seats Muni riders who prefer the unobstructed first row of front facing seats had better brace for disappointment, as new fears over sliding-rider lawsuits have the transit agency cutting off access to all those
SF News Every Single Muni Driver Is Suing Muni An estimated 2,500 Muni drivers have packed into a class action lawsuit against their employer, alleging the Municipal Railroad has been wasting their time and failing to pay their fair share for
SF News SFPD Officer Sued For Spitting On, Nearly Running Over Traffic Cop A 31-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department is the target of a federal civil rights lawsuit this week. Officer Thomas Lovrin is accused of spitting on and nearly running down Department
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Getting Sued By Palo Alto Developer In Property Dispute Because he's stupidly rich and likes to snap up multi-million-dollar properties like second-hand hoodies, Mark Zuckerberg recently spent $43 million to buy up four pieces of property adjoining his own Palo Alto residence,
SF News City Attorney Makes Examples Of Two Greedy, Eviction-Happy Landlords Just as that compromise legislation regarding short-term rentals like Airbnb makes its way through Board of Supervisors approvals, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is taking two landlords to task for doing something the new
SF News Oakland Cyclist Wins $3.25 Million Pothole Payday The city of Oakland (and its insurance carrier) has agreed to payout $3.25 million to a woman who was seriously injured after she slammed into a pothole while riding her bike on
SF News Facebook Sued For Creeping On Your Private Messages On Thursday, two concerned Facebook users filed a lawsuit against the social media mammoth, alleging they violated users' privacy by scanning individual members' private messages in order to gather data to use for
SF News The NRA Is Now Suing S.F. Over City's Gun Magazine Ban The National Rifle Association is officially not gonna take it anymore when it comes to San Francisco's tyrannical anti-gun agenda. Now, they've taken it upon themselves to sue the city of San Francisco,
