Subject: San Francisco Superior Court

• SF Parking Measure Stays on the Ballot

  August 30, 2007

• THE SF Bay Guardian's SHAKEDOWN HITS A SNAG

  January 17, 2008

• Anti-Weekly Lawsuit Set for Trial

  January 23, 2008

• Marjorie Knoller case inches forward

  April 11, 2008

• Back In Court

  July 8, 2008

• A Welcome Diversion: Renowned Dog-Cat-Rat Man Heads for Drug Treatment

  By Peter Jamison It ain't easy strolling through Baghdad by the Bay with three species of pets stacked atop one another. Just ask Gregory Pike, who has famously trained a rat to stand on top of a cat standing on top of a dog. His outrageously cute animal act has made him a star on YouTube and served him well as a panhandler. (For a video, click here.) But while the dollar bills from tourists at Union Square are still coming fast, Pike is feeling less love these days from the law. On Hal

  December 16, 2008

• Legal Armageddon! Christians v. Pagans, the Final Battle -- At S.F. Superior Court

  Locked in theological stuggle for millemnia, the belief systems of Paganism and Christianity have taken their rivalry to a higher authority -- the courts, according to names appearing on the docket at San Francisco Superior Court. Anna Marie Cross, along with a group of co-plaintiffs, has sued Susan Solstice and three codefendants. We haven't obtained details such as what exactly they're suing about, because the court's electronic database was not functioning Tuesday evening. But we've

  January 28, 2009

• Slap Shots

  April 19, 1995

• SF Gov InAction: Meet the Guardian's Imaginary Friend and Congratulate the Department of Technology on Its Fictitous $750,000 Tech Center

  When your whole government shuts down so that it can go to Washington D.C. and lobby for handouts, you know you've reached a point of no return. Economically it's a sign of total defeat, an acknowledgment that we are a zombie municipality that needs fresh infusions of federal blood just to go through the motions. Culturally it's a sign of egos run rampant over common sense. Or is there somebody in this town, besides David Chiu, who actually thought "Thank God David Chiu's going to Washingto

  March 16, 2009

• Having Their Cake and Drinking it Too: 'Layer Cake' Wine Sues 'Cupcake' Label

  Look, even this kid can tell the difference between a layer cake and a cupcake!I am not a legal scholar. But I can tell you this: Never have I ever been so blitzed on the fruit of the vine that I couldn't tell a layer cake from a cupcake. But, again, I am no legal scholar -- because just such a distinction is the genesis of a 56-page copyright infringement lawsuit filed last week in San Francisco Superior Court. One True Vine of St. Helena (which puts out the Layer Cake label) has taken umbrage

  March 30, 2009

• Vote on Ammiano's Marijuana Bill Postponed Amid Difficult Time For S.F. Pot Fans

  In what is perhaps the best news of late for aficionados of marijuana legalization, a scheduled March 31 committee hearing of Assemblyman Tom Ammiano's legalization bill was postponed likely until 2010 (drag) -- which gives marijuana advocates some time to reverse what would have almost definitely been a no vote (groovy). On the whole, however, these are the days that try pot men's souls: Last Wednesday witnessed a jaw-dropping raid of a San Francisco marijuana dispensary, seemingly in stark con

  March 29, 2009

• Stay Away ... Please

  Can cops keep an accused drug dealer from roaming the Tenderloin?

  March 18, 2009

• SF Weekly Letters

  November 19, 2008

• Marjorie Knoller mauled by courts

  October 1, 2008

• Bouncers Gone Wild

  September 24, 2008

• Double Bogey

  Muni's bogus tax shelter and theGuardian's bogus lawsuit.

  September 3, 2008

• Sex columnist Violet Blue tries to restrain online foes

  August 20, 2008

• Appealing to a Higher Authority

  We respond to the latest ruling in the Guardian's lawsuit against us.

  July 23, 2008

• The Gay Divorcees

  Gay marriage is new. Gay divorce isn't.

  June 4, 2008

• Poll suggests runoff likely in judicial race

  May 7, 2008

• Building Racism

  Segregation and racism are used to pit black and Latino carpenters against each other at a low-income-housing site

  March 26, 2008

• Trying Time

  Guardian's lawsuit against SF Weekly nearing trial after more than three years.

  January 23, 2008

• Students file class-action lawsuit against California Culinary Academy

  October 10, 2007

• Stained Rep

  February 14, 2007

• Let Us Now Praise Tough Cookies

  Who, in the populist tradition, fight for the rights

  September 20, 2006

• Mean People's Court

  On many fronts, the spiteful are doing harmful things that you should know about

  June 28, 2006

• Baring Equality

  The cases of a young defendant and a repeat offender attorney show power and privilege tip the scales

  November 9, 2005

• Political Insurance

  To help thousands of the disabled, a San Francisco attorney takes on an insurance company -- and New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

  July 6, 2005

• Ball Busters

  The battle over Bonds' record-setting homer looks quaint four seasons later

  April 13, 2005

• "I Do" Redux

  Do you subconsciously oppose gay marriage? Take our quiz and set your id free!

  March 23, 2005

• Reason to Question

  Is the Bay Guardian's lawsuit against SF Weekly connected to Bruce B. Brugmann's unfortunate business judgments?

  February 2, 2005

• Parking Break

  Want parking fines to go away without paying? Sign up with S.F.'s "best-kept secret."

  December 10, 2003

• The Fix Is In

  At least that's what Janet Campbell claimed about construction bids at UCSF, where she soon found herself out of a job

  February 26, 2003

• Family Fortunes

  Contractors accuse the Examiner's owners of not paying their bills

  September 26, 2001

• 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

  April 12, 2000

• Drug Warfare

  A Marin pharmacist sticks up for the little guys, and gets run over

  May 12, 1999

• Temperature Rising

  The UCSF-Stanford merger goes under a (symbolic) gun

  March 19, 1997

• Lawyers, Bucks, and Books

  Settlement talks on City College bookstore lawsuit collapse

  February 26, 1997

• Gavin Newsom is no civil service reformer

  May 6, 2009

• Three Courthouse Guards Allege Sex, Drugs, and Weapon-related Violations Inside San Francisco's Northern District Court

  Three guards employed by Akal Security, a prominent New Mexico-based corporation that contracts with federal courthouses around the country, are making some pretty shocking claims about their employer and workplace -- the Northern District Court in San Francisco. Their complaint, filed recently in San Francisco Superior Court, says that inside the glistening walls of the federal courthouse at 450 Golden Gate Avenue, all kinds of safety violations involving 

  June 10, 2009

• iSuit: 'America's Premier Puzzlemaster' Sues Apple for Allegedly Parking In His Spot (So to Speak)

  Don Rubin's original 1977 puzzle; the goal is to get the black car out of the lot in the fewest possible movesDon Rubin is "America's Premiere Puzzlemaster" -- or so his lawyers would inform you on the very first line of Rubin's suit vs. Apple. It seems Rubin has a legitimate claim to that title -- in his heyday, cavalcades of mail responses to his newspaper puzzle column became so onerous for Chicago-area postal employees that Rubin was given his own zip code. Back in 1977, Rubin crafted a park

  June 17, 2009

• California's First Openly Gay Superior Court Judge Hopes To Avoid Being 'Cubbyholed'

  San Francisco Superior CourtJudge Ronald AlbersWhen new superior court judges are appointed by the governor, it's usually a three-paragraph story in the back of the paper. In Judge Ronald Albers' case, that was how it went -- and yet it didn't. It wasn't just another appointment for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger when Albers was sworn in Monday at San Francisco Superior Court; the 60-year-old judge is, to the best of anyone's knowledge, the first openly LGBT person every tapped for the state's super

  June 19, 2009

• Victim of Success? Renowned Dog-Cat-Rat Man Fined for Drawing Big Crowds, Vows to Leave San Francisco.

  Say goodbye to Booger, Kitty, and MouseyGregory Pike, San Francisco's renowned "Dog-Cat-Rat Man," was found guilty this afternoon on a misdemeanor charge of public obstruction for drawing large crowds at the corner of Geary and Powell with his beloved animal act. As a result, he said, he plans to leave San Francisco, where he has sojourned for roughly a year, and return to his hometown of Bisbee, Ariz. "Thank the public for me," Pike said after his verdict. "When I leave here in two weeks, I'm

  July 2, 2009

• Bohemian Club to pay injured member more than $1 million after accident

  July 22, 2009

• Can Dennis Herrera Shut the Gates of Heaven? City Attorney Declares War on North Beach Strip Club.

  Heaven is a place on earth. But maybe not for longCity Attorney Dennis Herrera has filed papers in San Francisco Superior Court asking for an injunction that would close down Heaven, the North Beach strip club that Herrera says has stayed open in defiance of city and state laws and despite repeated police citations for prostitution.According to a press release from the city attorney's office, Heaven was also "implicated" in an April shooting. A witness told police investigators that an employee

  July 22, 2009

• North Beach turns to East Bay 'ambassadors' to calm club violence

  August 5, 2009

• S.F. Jury Acquits Man in Fifteen Minutes, Doesn't Believe Woman Accusing Him For One

  Judge Judy would not have been amused by the plaintiff...​Why watch Judge Judy when you can just step into San Francisco Superior Court?What was likely the most ridiculous case of the week started when a driver took videos and photos of a red, 2007 Mustang convertible speeding down I-80 East in San Francisco in July, 2007. Nicole Tai, 40, filed a police report that same night, claiming the Mustang had sideswiped her 2001 Nissan Xterra. The police obtained a warrant for the driver's arrest, alt

  August 14, 2009

• Politics are crippling state-funded services to the disabled

  October 28, 2009

• Judge Orders Pink Diamonds Strip Club Closed for One Year

  The wild nights are over​San Francisco Superior Court Judge Peter Busch ordered today that the Pink Diamonds be closed for one year, a victory for City Attorney Dennis Herrera in his efforts to crack down on the notoriously violent strip club."I am gratified that Judge Busch clearly recognized the significant threat to public safety Pink Diamonds posed," Herrera said in a statement. The judge also imposed fines of at least $690,000 on the club's owners.The strip club at 220 Jones Street has be

  October 28, 2009

• 'Signs' Point to Better Times Ahead for Cyclists

  The tide is turning...​ For San Francisco's ever-growing cadre of bicyclists, this week opened with both good news and bad.On Monday, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Peter Busch postponed until Nov. 12 his decision on whether to allow the city to install bicycle improvements. San Francisco has for years been barred from installing amenities such as bike lanes and racks thanks to a court injunction based on the theory that the city hadn't devoted sufficient environmental review to the notion

  November 6, 2009