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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
SF News SF General Wants LA Dodgers To Pay Up San Francisco General wants the Los Angels Dodgers to reimburse the hospital $1.2 million for "extensive trauma care" given to Giants fan Bryan Stow. If you recall, Stow was brutally
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Lawsuit Accuses In-N-Out Burger Of Racism, Ageism Say it ain't so! A new lawsuit filed in Alameda County Superior Court alleges that two black men over the age of 40 were passed over for jobs at the lily-
SF News Mother of Kenneth Harding Sues SFPD Over Son Accidentally Shooting Himself Denika Chatman, the mother of parolee Kenneth Harding who died during a chase with San Francisco police last year in which he accidentally shot himself in the neck while apparently attempting to shoot
SF News Indybay Photographer Sues Oakland Police For Constitutional Violations Local news photographer John Weston Osburn, who has worked primarily for Indybay Media, has filed a federal suit in Alameda County against the City of Oakland and several Oakland police officers claiming unreasonable
SF News Just Days After Rocky IPO, Investors Sue Facebook As Facebook's stock fell just days after trading, three investors filed suit against the company today, along with underwriters Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, accusing them of withholding damaging information about
SF News Dirty DUI Cases Involving Sketchy P.I. Pile Up In East Bay This American Life fans should recall the recent story of the 'P.I. Moms,' which aired last fall, and which was based on a story originally broken in Diablo Magazine. It
SF News Woman Receives $245,000 For Falling In A Pothole (And You Can Too!) Yesterday, the Board of Supervisors agreed to pay out a nearly quarter-million-dollar settlement to the victim of some shoddy street surfacing. The 68-year-old victim of the city's
SF News Sacramento Judge Tells Pot Advocates To Shove It A federal judge in Sacramento has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a marijuana dispensary up there that argued that the federal government broke its promise in launching its recent crackdown on the medical
