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Civil Trials

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Therapist Seduced Mentally "Compromised" Man, Lawsuit Claims

    A bizarre lawsuit by a mentally "compromised" East Bay man alleges that, while in an outpatient mental program he attended in lieu of serving out a prison term for petty theft, therapist Maria Santos Arriola had sex with him on multiple occasions. His suit, filed yesterday in Oakland, names Santos a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Mitchell Katz, Bay Area Winemaker, Sues Wife Over "Dirty DUI"

    rachelmnop via Flickr Mitchell Katz's divorce is dirtier than a dirty martini ​East Bay winemaker Mitchell Katz, is suing his wife and Chris Butler, the notorious Contra Costa County private eye who has been at the center of a massive police scandal, claiming the two were in cahoots to trap him in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Tim Lincecum Sued for Allegedly Trashing Mission Townhouse

    ​Tim Lincecum's ex-landlord is suing the Giants pitcher, claiming he trashed his Mission District townhome, causing more than $200,000 in damages. According to the lawsuit, which was filed yesterday in San Francisco, Lincecum, better known as The Freak, broke plaintiff's personal property and stai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Donors Allege Price-Fixing Scheme for Human Eggs by Fertility Clinics

    Big business?​An Arcata woman is suing national reproductive-medicine groups, alleging that they and their member fertility clinics have engaged in a price-fixing scheme to underpay female donors for their eggs.In her lawsuit, filed this week in San Francisco's federal courthouse, plaintiff Justin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    Civil Courts Are San Francisco's Newest Endangered Species

    Like the California grizzly, another symbol of our state is about to die off: the civil courts.​The warnings of cuts are over. They're here -- for real -- and San Francisco's civil court system will soon be a cozy concept from a bygone era in which the state had the cash to fund such luxuries as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    BART Passenger Sues Police for Alleged Beating Over Ringtone

    Bart in trouble again!​A BART passenger is suing the transit agency and several of its officers, accusing them of beating and arresting him after he said he complied with a police order to stop listening to a musical ringtone on his phone. You have to wonder -- how annoying was that ringtone? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    Press Democrat Sued Over 'Serial Squatter' Series

    Is now the subject of a news story ​The Santa Rosa Press Democrat ran a series of stories about someone accused of improperly using the courts to her advantage -- and you guessed it: The newspaper got sued.Gwendolyn Smith was dubbed a "serial squatter" in a half-dozen Santa Rosa Press Democrat art ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Teens Sue Federal Government for Failing to Protect Children from Global Warming (Video)

    Put this fire out!​Typically, you expect an environmental activist to be dressed in all organic clothing, maybe even birkenstocks. Whatever it is they are wearing, you at least imagine that they are them to be adults, as in over the age of 18. But apparently, the concern over global warming stretc ... More >>

  • News

    May 4, 2011

    California Culinary Academy Settles Lawsuit With Students for Millions

    Put this fire out!​Typically, you expect an environmental activist to be dressed in all organic clothing, maybe even birkenstocks. Whatever it is they are wearing, you at least imagine that they are them to be adults, as in over the age of 18. But apparently, the concern over global warming stretc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Naked Stanford Trumpeter's Solo Leads to Lawsuit

    Is there room for a brass section?​Here is a story involving a naked man and his trumpet -- and it didn't happen at band camp. Two marching band members got Stanford University into a legal battle after a half-naked trumpeter got hurt when the band manager tackled him during his pantless performan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    GameStop Sued for Swiping Buyers' Private Information

    Personal information is....personal​The thing about giving away your personal information -- it's no longer personal. One Alameda County woman trusted a local GameStop employee who had asked her for her private numbers -- address and credit cards -- as she bought games from the retailer.  She ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    Apple Sued for Privacy Invasion -- Again

    What does he know about you?​The number of iPad and iPhone users that claim Apple has passed around their private information is growing by the day.In December, two separate groups of iPad and iPhone users sued Apple, Inc., claiming the company had created apps that distributed personal informatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2011

    San Francisco Court Says Sikh Man Can Sue Newspaper for Libel Over Terrorist Remarks

    Libel Cost More​A San Francisco appellate court has sided with a 73-year-old Sikh man who claims that a local newspaper libeled him when it published content linking him to incendiary terrorist remarks.Hardev Singh Grewal, an interpreter for the Alameda County Superior Court, can sue the Punjab Ti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    Lawsuit Claims SF 911 Dispatchers Ditch Work, Party, Surf Internet, Even Ignore Calls

    Is it time to clock out yet?​San Francisco's Department of Emergency Management, long subject to allegations of maladministration, is described in an employee lawsuit filed last week as a den of dysfunction where 911 dispatchers skip work and cover for each other, spend days surfing the Internet a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Chile Lindo Owner Paula Tejeda on the Warpath (VIDEO)

    A dark day for empanadas​ Thursday's rally at the 24th Street BART station regarding the bevy of disability access lawsuits recently filed against Mission mom-and-pop restaurants didn't start a revolution. There were no signs or chants. Only three reporters and a handful of onlookers even showed u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Google Sued For Collecting Payload Data In Street View Debacle

    You can trust Google, right? Right? ​Two more plaintiffs have filed yet another class action lawsuit against Google for collecting private data as its cars drove around photographing every corner in the country -- and several other countries as well -- for Google Street View. The British governmen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    California Sued For Shortchanging Business Owners With IOUs

    ​A National Guard veteran who sold $28,000 worth of uniforms to the state of California for a youth camp has filed a lawsuit against state officials, asserting the state violated state law by paying her with  IOUs in lieu of cash during last year's budget crisis.Nancy Baird, a resident of San ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    Google Sued -- Street View Vehicles Accused of Spying

    ​A Washington, D.C. man has claimed that Google's street view vehicles aren't just cruising around hoping to create point-of-view maps and catch the occasional sunbather in a compromising position. A lawsuit filed last week in the nation's capital alleges that the gargantuan company has been surre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    San Francisco Dentist Latest To Sue Yelp For 'Shakedown Scheme'

    Correction: People love to sue us on yelp. ​A San Francisco dentist has joined the parade of litigants targeting Yelp, filing suit in San Francisco court for extortion in a "shakedown scheme" and conspiracy to injure her business and reputation. Dr. Gelareh Rahbar, a dentist with a practice on Kea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Federal Judge Skeptical About S.F. Fishermen's Oil Spill Lawsuit

    Next year's catch?​U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston has expressed some misgivings about the strength of a class-action lawsuit against the owners and operators of the Dubai Star, a Panamanian tanker that leaked up to 800 gallons of fuel into San Francisco Bay last October.In a written decis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Apple Sued for Allegedly Failing to Honor Warranty of 'Wet' iPhones

    You're shit outta luck...​A San Francisco woman is suing Apple, Inc. in a class action suit filed in U.S. District Court,  alleging that the company refuses to honor the phone's warranty by telling her the phone's "liquid submersion indicator" showed the phone had been dunked in water when it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Men Who Lost $1M in Scheme to Earn $10M Per Week File Suit

    ​If you are industrious or fortunate enough to be able to scare up $1 million on short notice, what would you do? A. Invest in government bonds; B. Invest in real estate; C. Hand it over to some skeezy guys who float a wild scheme about "leasing" $10 million, and parlaying that into earnings of $1 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    San Francisco Woman Sues -- Well, She Doesn't Know Who -- For Posting Her Nude Pics

    ​No need to dream of being Pamela Anderson or Paris Hilton or even former Miss California Carrie Prejean. You, too, can have your own internet sex scandal. Or nightmare.A private citizen of San Francisco has filed suit in Superior Court against some rotten anonymous internet trolls who posted phot ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2009

    Motel Hell

    It took years for the city to move against an SRO that was full of pests. So one resident took her case to court.

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    'Mafia Wars' Game Designer, Facebook Forced to Go to Legal Mattresses

    What is this YoCash of which you speak, Luca?​A class action lawsuit filed this week claims that Zynga Game Network, a San Francisco-based company that develops games for Facebook, lured unsuspecting customers into handing over their cell phone and debit card numbers with "special offers" and othe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    City Attorney Dennis Herrera Ups Ante in S.F.-Minnesota Credit Card Credit-Hogging Dispute

    Don't worry, hypothetical Michigan Tech alum Chris L. Martin! Dennis Herrera has got your back.​When Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson hogged credit last month for attacking a loophole companies use to prevent consumer lawsuits, observers said San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera was g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    Goth Pre-Teens Around the World Shudder: 'Emily The Strange' Creators Sued In Federal Court for Copyright Infringement

    Hmmmm.....The intrigue around Emily the Strange copycat debate has intensified. Last month, the Berkeley-based producers of the international goth hero, whose likeness graces many a T-shirt and comic book, filed a preemptive lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco. The company, Cosmic Debris, aske ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Class Action Lawsuit Sticks It To Kaiser For Allegedly Double Charging on Co-Pays

    A Contra Costa County woman has filed a class action lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente in federal court in San Francisco, claiming the health care provider double-charged her co-pay in a case that her attorney says could affect "hundreds, potentially thousands" of policyholders who've reco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    Oops, Chase Did it Again (Allegedly)

    Last week, we wrote about how San Francisco was greeting Chase Bank -- poised to take over 700 WaMu banks in California by the end of March -- with a federal class action lawsuit claiming that the bank defrauded its credit card customers by jacking up the interest rates on "blank check" loans. (Read ... More >>

  • News

    October 22, 2008

    On the Waterfront

    Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2008

    Back In Court

    Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.

  • News

    February 20, 2008

    Vexatious Litigant Burton Wolfe Fighting Eviction After Threatening More Lawsuits

    Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2008

    THE SF Bay Guardian's SHAKEDOWN HITS A SNAG

    Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.

  • News

    September 26, 2007

    Frankovich: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Disables Wheelchair Access Attorney

    Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.

  • News

    September 26, 2007

    Chinatown Power Players Behind Ed Jew Smokescreen, Source Says

    Pier 39's management dismisses Joe Abuzaid as a wingnut, but this wingnut may be a real whistleblower.

  • News

    October 4, 2006

    Troubled Order

    Faced with lingering sex abuse complaints, the Salesians of St. John Bosco take their lumps in court

  • Music

    February 22, 2006

    Misc. Reviews

    If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This week: Turf Talk on Judge Joe Brown.

  • News

    June 25, 2003

    Nailed?

    Lawyers for hundreds of sex-abuse victims have California's Catholic dioceses in a dire financial bind. Can church leaders finagle an escape, or are they ...

  • News

    August 15, 2001

    Hospital, Heal Thyself

    The rebuilding of the Laguna Honda nursing home is already three years behind schedule and millions over budget -- and the final plans aren't even finished yet

  • News

    April 26, 2000

    School of Hard Knocks

    State laws regulating vocational schools have been gutted. Disadvantaged students are paying the price.

  • News

    April 12, 2000

    Battle Belli

    The international soap opera that surrounds the crumbling San Francisco landmark that was center stage for the incomparable "King of Torts," Melvin Belli

  • News

    March 29, 2000

    Mom & Pop Crackdown

    A city task force is aggressively suing business owners, some of whom are facilitating crime in their neighborhoods. And some of whom are just making donuts.

  • News

    July 21, 1999

    Tender Box

    Inflamed by crime, drugs, and rising rents, Tenderloin residents are now launching lawsuits to clean up the city's dumping ground

  • News

    March 10, 1999

    Sex and the Singular Swami

    Since the '60s, the Ananda Church of Self-Realization has grown from a Northern California commune into a worldwide New Age empire. Its leader has grown fond of sex with young believers.

  • News

    April 15, 1998

    Baseball's Orphans

    Why are 74 old-timers -- players who helped create the multibillion-dollar business called Major League Baseball -- still without pensions?

  • News

    January 21, 1998

    Sutter's Empire Strikes Back

    Two lawsuits allege conflict of interest, sharp dealing

  • News

    August 27, 1997

    The Black Hole of San Francisco

    This jail is a filthy, unhealthy, decrepit, barbaric nightmare. This jail will probably collapse and kill hundreds if there is a significant earthquake. The city of San Francisco keeps using this unconstitutional hellhole because people who call themselve

  • News

    October 23, 1996

    Where Crime Pays

    Is the DA's Office bungling the biggest pollution case in Bay Area history?

  • News

    March 27, 1996

    Randy Shaw's Power Plays

    Sixteen years ago, Randy Shaw started a housing clinic with $50 and a good idea: educating tenants. Now he's got more than $900,000 a year to spend -- and clout to match.

  • News

    September 20, 1995

    The Family Jewels

    In life, Paul Kalmanovitz controlled every business decision related to his $500million brewery/real estate dynasty.He even made detailed plans forthe governance of his estateafter he died. So why is the Kalmanovitz fortune the center of two vituperative

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