The city of Oakland, California, asked a state court judge Monday to confirm an arbitration award requiring the Golden State Warriors basketball team to continue paying its share of stadium debt through 2027, even though the team is moving to a new arena in San Francisco next season.
Read moreAlameda County prosecutors on Friday outmaneuvered lawyers for two men facing involuntary manslaughter charges stemming from the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire, convincing a state judge to bar the defendants and their attorneys from speaking with the press just before delivering controversial arguments apparently aimed at swaying potential jurors.
Read moreOakland on Tuesday sued the National Football League and the Raiders in federal court over the team’s “illegal” move to Las Vegas, accusing the NFL of leaching off host cities to bankroll new stadiums and threatening to relocate teams when funding falls short.
Read moreA developer fighting to export coal from a planned marine shipping terminal in Oakland sued the city in state court Tuesday, accusing local officials of obstructing the project.
Read moreA married couple who rented out their house accuse Oakland, Calif., in a federal complaint of having passed a law that “retroactively, illegally, and unconstitutionally requires rental property owners to pay thousands of dollars in ‘relocation’ payments to tenants before the owners can repossess the property for their own use.”
Read moreA federal judge on Wednesday refused to block Oakland from shutting down a homeless encampment for sober women and their children, and tossed a temporary restraining order forbidding its closure.
Read moreThe California Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to let the city of Oakland out of a sprawling civil lawsuit brought by victims of the Ghost Ship fire that killed 36 people two years ago who were attending a dance party in an illegally converted warehouse.
Read moreTo head off federal litigation over an allegedly racist Oakland ordinance prohibiting public housing residents from loitering in common areas of their housing complexes, the Oakland City Council repealed the decades-old law Tuesday night.
Read moreOakland, Calif., and its Housing Authority Police stop, arrest, search, handcuff and harass public housing authority residents for merely standing or sitting — “loitering”— in their own front yards, two men claim in a federal complaint.
Read moreTwo men pleaded no contest Tuesday to involuntary manslaughter charges over the deaths of 36 people who perished in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland and accepted county jail sentences of nine and six years.
Read moreA lawsuit accusing Wells Fargo of violating the Fair Housing Act by offering predatory loans to minority homebuyers will advance, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday struck down the city of Oakland’s ban on coal shipments from a new marine terminal being built at the foot of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, finding inadequate evidence that coal operations would increase pollution.
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A state judge on Friday said there is enough evidence for a manslaughter trial to proceed against two men connected to the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire that killed 36 people.
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A California judge Wednesday refused to dismiss Oakland from a civil lawsuit over the Ghost Ship warehouse fire that killed 36 people, finding the city had a mandatory duty to ensure the warehouse was safe.
Read moreThe city of Oakland will pay $35,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming police tried to cover up an attempted home invasion and assault by two drunk off-duty officers.
Read moreA top immigration official said Wednesday that about 800 people living illegally in Northern California were able to avoid arrest because of a weekend warning that Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf put on Twitter.
Read moreA federal judge Monday dismissed with prejudice the Building Industry Association’s challenge of Oakland, California’s requirement that large developments must include publicly accessible art or pay a 1 percent fee.
Read moreAttorneys for a developer fighting to export coal from Oakland, California, tried to convince a judge Friday that city officials fudged a key scientific report to justify enacting a coal-handling ban in the city.
Read moreAttorneys for a developer fighting to reverse a ban on coal-handling in Oakland suggested in a Tuesday bench trial that city officials conspired to enact the ban to appease their environmental allies.
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