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
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
