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,
SF News Oracle Sued By Strip Club For Refusal To Pay For 'Services' As Larry Ellison takes over the waterfront and OracleWorld descends upon San Francisco, one local house of modern burlesque filed a lawsuit against the megacompany after one of its employees allegedly used an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drakes Bay Oyster Company Will Be Forced To Close [Update: Maybe Not] In the ongoing legal troubles of Drakes Bay, the company responsible for about 40% of California's oysters was denied an appeal that would have allowed the 2,500 acre oyster farm to stay
SF News Marin Man Sues Blue Man Group Over 'Injury To His Nervous System' You can't smoke a cigarette on stage in a Berkeley theater without notifying local authorities and posting many a warning placard, so it shouldn't come as a shock that we live in one
Arts & Entertainment Zynga Is Pissed About Bang With Friends The latest invention catering to Generation Slut, Bang With Friends, is now the subject of a lawsuit from Zynga. The company claims its trademark on the "With Friends" thing has been infringed upon,
SF News Now Asiana Airlines Wants To Drop KTVU Lawsuit Asiana Airlines has now decided to drop its lawsuit against KTVU for reporting false and racially insensitive names, including "Sum Ting Wong," "Wi Tu Low," and "Ho Lee Fuk." The airline, wanting to
SF News Oakland Settles With Injured Occupy Protesters For $1.17M In a high-profile case dealing with police misconduct, the City of Oakland has decided to settle lawsuits brought by a dozen protesters from Occupy Oakland, all to the tune of $1.17 million.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Returning The Favor, S.F. City Attorney Files Suit Against Monster Energy Drink Just one week after the makers of Monster Beverage sued San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, the D.A. has struck back. Today, Herrera filed the People of the State of California v.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drakes Bay Oyster Co. Will Stay Open (For Now) The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted Drakes Bay Co. a temporary injunction that will keep the beloved oyster farm open. Whew. Marin IJ has more: The 9th circuit court agreed
SF News S.F. Nudity Ban Upheld; Federal Judge Says Nudity Isn't Speech You'll recall the protest outside the federal courthouse we showed you on Thursday where a hearing was taking place about S.F.'s nudity ban? Well, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen says
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drake's Bay Oyster Company Goes To Court Drakes Bay Oyster Co. lost their 40-year lease on federal land back in November when U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gave them the boot and subsequent efforts to renew the lease were
SF News PG&E Fires or Suspends 18 Employees In Scandal Over 1,200 Fraudulent Inspections PG&E is supposed to be more vigilant and safety-oriented these days, after blowing up a cul de sac in 2010 and killing eight people in San Bruno, but as it happens,
