SF News Elite Members-Only Club The Battery Faces Lawsuits Alleging Wage and Labor Violations, Harassment Two employees have separately sued the exclusive San Francisco club known as The Battery, alleging wage and labor violations, with one worker also accusing the company of allowing years of harassment and discrimination tied to his disability.
Business & Tech Meta Ordered to Pay $567M, Implement Safeguards as Part of New Mexico Child Mental Health Trial In the second phase of a pivotal trial in New Mexico, a judge ordered Meta to pay an additional $567 million, most of which will go toward mental health services for youth, and the company must incorporate numerous new safeguards.
SF News Alameda County Pays Out $12M Settlement Over Tragic Death of Eight-Year-Old Sophia Mason The horrific story of a young girl who was failed by the child protection apparatus of Alameda County has come to an end with the county paying out its second-largest-ever settlement to the girl's grandmother.
SF News Another Planet Entertainment In Ongoing Legal Dispute With Castro Theatre Contractor For Alleged Faulty Work, Over-Billing Another Planet Entertainment (APE) has now filed multiple lawsuits against the contractor who worked on the Castro Theatre renovation, the latest accusing the contractor of falsely advertising its work on the project.
Business & Tech FTC, California Sue SF-Based Hims & Hers For False Advertising, Sharing Private Health Data SF-based telehealth company Hims & Hers is being sued by the FTC and the states of California and Utah over alleged predatory business practices, including sharing private health data with advertisers and misleading customers over charges and services.
SF News SF Archdiocese to Pay $400M Settlement, Announces Closure of Specialized St. Brigid Academy The San Francisco Roman Catholic Archdiocese was in the news twice Monday, as news landed that they will be paying a nearly $400 million settlement to sexual abuse survivors, and they announced the closure of SF's St. Brigid Academy.
SF News Wrongful Death Lawsuit Claims Outer Sunset Landlord Killed Tenant to Boost Property Sale Outer Sunset landlord Philippe Chagniot is accused in a new lawsuit of killing his tenant Eric Bigone to boost the sale of the property, and Chagniot’s wife allegedly asked Bigone’s son the day after his father’s death when he would be vacating the unit.
Business & Tech Texas Attorney General Sues Netflix, Claiming It Tracks Users’ Every Move In a new lawsuit, the Texas Attorney General accuses Netflix of tracking and selling users’ data and behavior patterns to other large tech companies.
SF News Families of 2024 West Portal Crash Victims Move Forward With Civil Suits Against Mary Lau Elderly driver Mary Lau will have to explain what happened in the 2024 West Portal crash that killed a family of four in two civil lawsuits filed by relatives of the family last year, and jurors will determine monetary damages, following Lau’s sentence in criminal court last Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry Hit With Class-Action Labor Suit Alleging Break and Wage Violations A former dishwasher at the French Laundry in Yountville has filed a lawsuit on behalf of 50 other employees alleging that the restaurant routinely violates state law around mandatory break times and resting facilities, and that it also failed to pay the minimum wage or overtime.
SF News Musk Ordered to Pay $2 Billion In Twitter Shareholder Lawsuit, Found Liable But Absolved of Fraud The jury in a lawsuit over Elon Musk’s 2022 takeover of Twitter found he misled investors by claiming he might walk away over the platform’s bot estimates, prompting some to sell during a downturn before he ultimately went through with the original deal — but fraud claims were dropped.
SF News Piedmont Cybertruck Crash Survivor Files Lawsuit Against Tesla Over Faulty Door Locks Jordan Miller, the sole survivor of the horrific Cybertrack crash in Piedmont during Thanksgiving week in 2024, filed a lawsuit against Tesla Tuesday, claiming that Tesla’s faulty door locks trapped him in the vehicle and contributed to significant injuries from which he’s still recovering.
SF News Oakland Officers Heard Laughing About 'Ghost Chase' Crash That Killed One In New Video In a new video compilation presented in court in a wrongful death case, two former Oakland police officers can be heard laughing after witnessing — and arguably causing — a high-speed crash on June 26, 2022 that killed 28-year-old Lolomanaia "Lolo" Soakai.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 85-Year-Old Man Suspected of Fatally Stabbing East Bay Couple The family of 4-year-old Ayden Fang is suing the 19-year-old driver who fatally struck him as well as the city of Burlingame; NASA successfully altered the orbit of two asteroids; and an 85-year-old Bay Point man was arrested in connection with a double-stabbing.
SF News Fence Controversy at Daly City Beachfront Property Escalates With Legal Filing There is now a lawsuit in San Mateo County seeking to stop the county from taking down a controversial fence surrounding some long-vacant property, and the man who put up the fence remains defiant.
SF News Descendants of Black Family Who Were Run Out of Piedmont in the 1920s Sue the City For Reparations The descendants of Sidney and Irene Dearing have now filed a lawsuit in Alameda County seeking damages from the City of Piedmont over an egregious, century-old act of racial injustice.
SF News Sunset District Businesses File Lawsuit Over December Power Outage A group of Sunset District businesses are filing a lawsuit against PG&E seeking compensation for lost business during the December 20 power outage, which for some lasted multiple days.
SF News Convicted Killer Nima Momeni Sues Media for Defamation Nima Momeni, the man who was convicted one year ago in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee, has now filed a lawsuit against multiple media organizations claiming defamation, among other claims.
SF Politics SF City Attorney Sues Ten ‘Ultraprocessed Food’ Companies, Claiming Their Products Area Causing Widespread Disease The Nanny State is coming after the Coca-Cola Company and other ‘Big Food’ brands right here in SF, as City Attorney David Chiu has sued the manufacturers of ultraprocessed foods, saying they’re behind spikes in cancer and diabetes.
Business & Tech Legal Dispute Continues Between Transamerica Building Owner and High-End Private Club That Was Set to Be a Tenant A legal battle that's been ongoing for about 18 months between upscale membership club CORE and SHVO, the developer behind the revamp of the Transamerica Building, appeared to escalate this week.
SF News APEC Protester Seen Being Punched By Volunteer Files Suit, Suspect Seeks Mental Health Diversion A woman who was protesting the November 2023 APEC summit in San Francisco was left with devastating injuries from being sucker-punched by a man who had just shown up to volunteer at the event. She's now suing the organizers and the man himself.
SF News Wrongful Death Lawsuit Claims Grandfather Was 'Boiled Alive' By Hotel Shower In San Jose The family of a Marine Corps veteran who had traveled to San Jose to see his granddaughter graduate from college in May is suing the hotel where he was staying after he was found dead and severely scalded in the shower of his hotel room.
SF News Lengthy Court Proceeding Over Homeless Encampment Sweeps In SF Ends With $2.8M Settlement A court case that was brought by several homeless individuals along with the ACLU and the Coalition on Homelessness led to a two-year legal battle over the city's practice of clearing encampments from public spaces. It has now ended in a financial settlement of $2.8 million.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Jose Woman Still Suing Thai Restaurant For Serving Her Spicy Meatballs That She Says Injured Her It would seem strange for a doctor to file a frivolous injury lawsuit, so we'll give the benefit of the doubt to the case of a San Jose woman, who is a doctor, who claims that an extra-spicy Thai dish caused her permanent internal injuries.
SF News Nurse Sues El Camino Hospital In Mountain View, Says Manager Assaulted Her at Work Party A nurse is suing El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, claiming the hospital ignored her report of a sexual assault by her manager because the incident happened off-campus — during a retirement party at Morton’s Steakhouse in downtown San Jose.
