SF News After Going on Strike During the Bob Lee Trial, SF Court Clerks Get the New Contract They Wanted The Bob Lee stabbing trial got sidetracked by a one-day court clerk strike in late October, but that labor dispute has been settled, as the clerks just agreed to a new contract that would lower their caseloads.
SF Politics Let’s Consider the Upcoming SF Judge Elections, Which Have Been Upended by Pretend ‘Report Cards’ There are two SF Superior Court judge seats up for grabs in next month’s election, and a partisan group has been issuing report cards. These oddly leave out how one supposedly tough-on-crime candidate has a husband with a druggy past.
SF News SF Superior Court Drowning in Case Backlog, Public Defender Calls it ‘Humanitarian Crisis’ More than 200 people remain incarcerated with their trials months past the legal deadline here in San Francisco, and Sup. Ronen is on a warpath to speed up getting these cases heard.
SF News Kinky Send-Off For Retiring Judge Gets Out Of Order A singing telegram for a retiring San Francisco judge last week may have struck an off-note with a pair of handcuffs and a Confederate flag patch. After the usual cake and kind words
SF News Bad Driver Ohmeed Popal Pleads Not Guilty The man suspected of mowing people down during a hit-and-run spree in August 2006 , Omeed Aziz Popal, 30, pleaded not guilty today in San Francisco Superior Court. Really. For those of you who
SF News Norman Hsu Gets Three Years In the Slammer Denied. Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu - who helped raised cash for Mayor Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Fiona Ma, Hillary Clinton, and the victorious Barack Obama - was sentenced to three years in prison
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Lungless Salamander Today's Chron Bay Area section takes a break from covering the plight of lungless salamanders in Korea (why is this in the Bay Area section? Yes, yes, we know, it's because Cal researchers
SF News Judge Says UC Berkeley Can Prune Tree-Sitters After a 10-month protest atop an oak grove next to Memorial Stadium, a judge ruled on Monday that UC Berkeley can now start removing up-in-a-tree protesters, as well as their ground support, even
SF News Oh No Ed Jew!: Delays & (More) Lies District Attorney Kamala Harris opposed the delay, but Superior Court Judge Chuck Haines ruled that Jew's trial will start Oct. 26. That's more than a month away for some good Jew-related trial content.
SF News Have You Seen This Fugitive Fundraiser? Fundraiser, five-head sufferer, and possible one-time kidnapping victim Norman Hsu skipped his San Mateo County Superior Court appearance this morning and is now the lam! He is wanted for a 15-year-old felony warrant
SF News August Muni Payout: $131,695.06 The biggest payout is $47,500 to a guy who broke his ankle when the bus lurched forward before he could sit. Ouch. The driver in question was Daniel Johnson, driver number 1324.
misc Oh No, Ed Jew!: Juror By now, you’ve heard it reported that Ed Jew got called up for Jury Duty on Monday. Well, I was actually in his juror pool and got to see the whole thing
misc Former Superintendent Ackerman Sues San Francisco Unified School District! According to a press release put out on PR Newswire by her attorney, Dr. Arlene Ackerman has filed suit against the San Francisco Unified School District in San Francisco Superior Court. She is
SF News Never a Dull Moment in the TL We've all had to deal with loud, bothersome neighbors moving in next door, right? Just imagine having the neighbors at the Seneca Hotel, operated by the Tenderloin Housing Clinic. The city supplies the
SF News May Muni Payout: $61,176.13 We can't get any details on this month's cases, sadly, because the SF Superior Court website seems to have been completely demolished. (Maybe the SFMTA website ran into it.) We have it on
SF News Another Month, Another Muni Payout The other $15,000 gets split between Tokuko ($6,000) and State Farm ($8,917.83). Tokuko's claim relates to some personal injury and property damage done by a bus in 2005, and
SF News Really, We're Just Posting This So We Have An Excuse To Use This Picture Again Look how happy Gavin was when San Francisco was awarded the stem cell research center last May! Hope he's got his knuckles ready and another lackey around this afternoon, because Alameda Superior Court
SF News eNRAged Good ol' Chris Daly -- in an interview with the NY Times about Proposition H (reduces swelling), he said about the anti-H forces, "I'm crazy, but they're crazier." (Special bonus quote from the
SF News Courtyard Marriott Employees Paid Less than Minimum Wage Last Wednesday, word got out about a class-action suit being brought by Gonzalez & Leigh on behalf of employees at the Courtyard Marriott in San Francisco Superior Court. Originally filed September 23rd, the
Arts & Entertainment <i>I'd Kill For A Parking Place</i> Back in the 1970s, everyone was talking about Traffic Commissioner Jerry Levitin. Commish Levitin, a former criminal defense attorney, spent the decade of stagflation reducing or just outright vacating over 200,000 tickets,
SF News Gays Have Equal Rights Breaking news: Judge Kramer of the San Francisco Superior Court has ruled that laws restricting marriage to heterosexuals violate the California constitution. We're still looking for links to the order, and reporting about
Arts & Entertainment Bad News For Bloggers SFist Jackson's not here today, but we know he'd want us to let you know that, as expected, Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Kleinberg ruled against the bloggers and for Apple. Judge Kleinberg
SF News Get Ur Geek On: Apple Bites At stake is something that SFist holds very dear to our heart -- the concept that bloggers have what journalists working in any other medium have, namely, journalistic privelege. We have our own
SF News Oral Arguments End in Gay Marriage Court Case After last Thursday’s nice, legalistic hearing on the legality of gay marriage, Friday’s hearing, the last of the two-day hearing, took a turn to the not so nice as the two
SF News Let the Court Cases Begin Hearings began Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court on the legality of Same-Sex Marriage. On one side is the City of San Francisco, representing twelve plaintiffs who filed suitafter the California Supreme Court
