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  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Apple Settles 'Death Grip' Lawsuit over iPhone Service

    ​Apple has settled multiple class-action lawsuits alleging that holding the iPhone 4 in a certain way cut off service to the popular smartphone -- what plaintiffs in the case called a "death grip" causing the loss of the phone's signal.As Courthouse News reports, customers in the 16 separate feder ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    DA's Office to Comply with Judges' Orders Unsealing Secret Crime Lab Memo

    Rockne Harmon​A spokesperson for San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said this afternoon that the DA's office will obey an appellate court's ruling that prosecutors disclose a potentially damaging memo on problems with DNA-testing procedures at the San Francisco Police Department crime ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    High-tech Thieves Jury Rigged Gas Pumps to Steal Customers' Identities

    ​A pair of MacGyver-esque identity thieves has pleaded guilty to implanting devices in gas pumps that stole customers' checking-account information, a scheme that state officials say brought in $90,000.The California Attorney General's office announced today that the men -- David Karapetyan and Zh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    Steven Petrilli Found Guilty of Officer Nick-Tomasito Birco's Murder

    SFPDOfficer Nick-Tomasito Birco, killed in 2006​A somewhat bizarre trial four years after the death of San Francisco Police Office Nick-Tomasito Birco yesterday resulted in the murder conviction of one of his accused killers, Steven Petrilli. The 24-year-old was found guilty of first-degree murder ... More >>

  • News

    July 14, 2010

    Facial Profiling

    Will face-recognition technology get an accused killer off the hook?

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Wife-Beating Cops Can Keep it a Secret? Public Defender Not Pleased.

    Public Defender Jeff Adachi, pictured at a press conference last month​Public Defender Jeff Adachi said this afternoon that he has serious misgivings about District Attorney Kamala Harris' appointment of a private attorney to review which cases of police officers' criminal misconduct should be dis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2010

    S.F. Cops' Criminal Pasts Could Overturn Convictions

    This kind of behavior needs to be reported to a defense attorney. In San Francisco, it hasn't been. ​The District Attorney's office -- already reeling from cocaine-skimming crime lab tech Deborah Madden and her cohorts tossing narcotic evidence into an "unsecured cardboard box" -- now has a new pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    Mariah Carey Sued in S.F. Court by Outraged Songwriters

    Okay, checking ... left, right ... both there. Lawsuit? Got that too. ​Chanteuse Mariah Carey has been named in a San Francisco lawsuit -- and not because of any ruptured eardrums caused by her dog whistle vocal range. Instead a pair of Oakland songwriters filed suit against Carey and a bevy of ot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    More Companies Join Class-Action Lawsuit against Yelp

    There are nine new plaintiffs in the case against S.F.-based Yelp.​Nine companies have joined the proposed class-action lawsuit against Yelp, the San Francisco-based Internet giant, attorneys in Miami and California announced this morning. The new plaintiffs are located everywhere from Tujung ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2008

    Ka-Ching!

    There are nine new plaintiffs in the case against S.F.-based Yelp.​Nine companies have joined the proposed class-action lawsuit against Yelp, the San Francisco-based Internet giant, attorneys in Miami and California announced this morning. The new plaintiffs are located everywhere from Tujung ... More >>

  • News

    January 16, 2008

    Gus Fallay Beats Bribery Rap, Wants Old Job Back at SF Department of Building Inspection

    There are nine new plaintiffs in the case against S.F.-based Yelp.​Nine companies have joined the proposed class-action lawsuit against Yelp, the San Francisco-based Internet giant, attorneys in Miami and California announced this morning. The new plaintiffs are located everywhere from Tujung ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2008

    Alleged S.F. Road Warrior Omeed Popal to Face 35 Felony Counts

    There are nine new plaintiffs in the case against S.F.-based Yelp.​Nine companies have joined the proposed class-action lawsuit against Yelp, the San Francisco-based Internet giant, attorneys in Miami and California announced this morning. The new plaintiffs are located everywhere from Tujung ... More >>

  • News

    September 26, 2007

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

    There are nine new plaintiffs in the case against S.F.-based Yelp.​Nine companies have joined the proposed class-action lawsuit against Yelp, the San Francisco-based Internet giant, attorneys in Miami and California announced this morning. The new plaintiffs are located everywhere from Tujung ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2007

    CNET/H-P Suit: Good Personal Privacy v. Bad Personal Privacy VIolator

    There are nine new plaintiffs in the case against S.F.-based Yelp.​Nine companies have joined the proposed class-action lawsuit against Yelp, the San Francisco-based Internet giant, attorneys in Miami and California announced this morning. The new plaintiffs are located everywhere from Tujung ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2007

    ADA Lawsuit Factory in SF

    There are nine new plaintiffs in the case against S.F.-based Yelp.​Nine companies have joined the proposed class-action lawsuit against Yelp, the San Francisco-based Internet giant, attorneys in Miami and California announced this morning. The new plaintiffs are located everywhere from Tujung ... More >>

  • News

    July 25, 2007

    Wheelchairs of Fortune

    Attorney Tom Frankovich and his disabled clients sue small businesses to make them accessible - and make millions

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2007

    District Attorney Files Criminal Charges Against Supervisor Ed Jew

    Attorney Tom Frankovich and his disabled clients sue small businesses to make them accessible - and make millions

  • News

    November 15, 2006

    Amazonian Quagmire

    Big Oil, the rainforest, and sticky legal issues are stuck in a San Francisco courtroom

  • News

    January 18, 2006

    Let It Bleed

    Prosecutors' reluctance to charge murder suspects in S.F. leaves alleged killers on the street, flush with bravado

  • News

    January 4, 2006

    Tilting at Political Windmills

    Some people, like attorney Paul Melbostad, just don't know when to quit. Bully for him.

  • News

    January 4, 2006

    House of the Accused

    When priests within the Salesian order based in San Francisco were accused of sex abuse, the leaders chose to keep quiet.

  • News

    December 7, 2005

    Split Decision

    Republicans want to break up "the 9th Circus," the San Francisco-based liberal federal appeals court. Whose side are you on?

  • News

    November 23, 2005

    Bait and Snitch

    Lying under oath, threatening witnesses, revealing the names of federal agents -- it's just another day on the job for one of the DEA's paid drug informants

  • News

    June 19, 2002

    Harsh Judgment

    An epic child-custody case, pitting California against Texas, takes another twist when an appeals court labels the proceedings "nonsense"

  • News

    May 29, 2002

    Soft Firm

    Too often, the S.F. law firm of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein strikes settlements that give the firm millions of dollars in legal fees -- and its class action clients too little

  • News

    December 26, 2001

    Law of the Bungle

    Sara Jane Olson's attorney would like to say a few words about how her San Francisco co-counsel handled the high-profile case

  • News

    November 14, 2001

    Law and Borders

    Prosecutors, judges, governors, a sex offender, and a woman with a penchant for poor judgement entangle California and Texas in an epic child custody war with two sure losers -- aged 7 and 9.

  • News

    September 19, 2001

    The Dilemma of Sara Jane Olson

    With an October trial in the offing, prosecutors had every intention of proving that Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson was a domestic terrorist who helped plant bombs under police cars 26 years ago.

  • News

    March 14, 2001

    Old Wounds

    News reports about the lawyers whose dog killed Diane Whipple have stirred unpleasant memories among a few of their former clients

  • News

    August 23, 2000

    Killer, Junkie, Liar, Thief...

    ... so why not lawyer? How our political elite tried and failed to get a law license for sister-killing Eben Gossage.

  • News

    July 26, 2000

    Pants on Fire

    How the San Francisco Fire Department turned a manageable house fire into a lethal disaster -- and then tried to cover up its firefighting mistakes

  • News

    July 5, 2000

    Slave Wages

    Those forced to labor for Japan in World War II are now suing in California courts

  • News

    June 7, 2000

    Officer Down

    Steve Landi was a hero at 101 California and a cop to his bones. Why is the SFPD trying so hard to get rid of him?

  • News

    January 26, 2000

    "Fairfield Wives" Saga Continues

    Mormon doctor's conviction for sexual penetration with foreign object upheld; allegation of juror misconduct headed for court

  • News

    December 8, 1999

    South to the Future

    Mexican Families to File Class Action Lawsuit Against U.S. Drug Consumers

  • News

    September 15, 1999

    Pirates at the Dock

    Sony, Electronic Arts sue, alleging Bay Area residents were part of international video game piracy ring

  • News

    September 8, 1999

    WEB PREVIEW

    Pirates at the Dock

    Sony, Electronic Arts sue, alleging Bay Area residents were part of international video game piracy ring

  • News

    September 1, 1999

    Smoke and Mirrors

    Hype over the Laguna Honda bond issue hides some ugly facts

  • News

    May 12, 1999

    Drug Warfare

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

  • Calendar

    May 12, 1999

    Cothran

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

  • Calendar

    October 7, 1998

    Cothran

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

  • News

    September 16, 1998

    Midway to Nowhere

    The residents of Daly City's Midway Village wonder if their environmental concerns will ever be addressed

  • News

    January 14, 1998

    Trial by Liar

    The snitches mumbled, stumbled, equivocated, and perjured themselves The jury found Bernard Temple -- the man prosecutors believed to be a bloodthirsty assassin for drug dealers -- not guilty of murder.

  • News

    December 31, 1997

    The Great Bank Thievery

    The city and state say the Bank of America stole hundreds of millions -- even billions -- of dollars from the government. But didn't San Francisco finance officials know what was going on? And shouldn't B of A executives be under criminal investigation?

  • News

    December 10, 1997

    Splendor in the Court

    How lavish can $20 million in cost overruns make a federal court- house? Let's start with the $33,000 desk.

  • News

    November 12, 1997

    Let's Make Appeal

    UCSF-Stanford merger challenged directly in appellate court

  • News

    May 21, 1997

    Will the Soul-Jacker Go Free?

    State prosecutions against alleged gang assassin appear to disintegrate

  • News

    October 23, 1996

    Waste Case History

    State prosecutions against alleged gang assassin appear to disintegrate

  • News

    October 23, 1996

    Where Crime Pays

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

  • Calendar

    August 28, 1996

    The Grid

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

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