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Judge Permanently Blocks DOJ’s Sanctuary City Cuts
A federal judge on Friday permanently barred the Trump administration from withholding policing grants from California, San Francisco and other so-called sanctuary jurisdictions across the nation.
Read moreSan Francisco Accused of Racial Bias in Drug Arrests
San Francisco police officers targeted 37 black people with arrests for selling “small amounts of drugs” because of their race, six arrestees claim in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday.
Read moreNo Safe Injection Sites
California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would allow San Francisco to open safe injection sites through a pilot program to combat dirty needles, saying any such sites should require that drug users receive treatment.
Read moreSan Francisco Police Shooting Suit Likely Headed for Trial
Claims that San Francisco police officers used excessive force when they unloaded 21 bullets into Mario Woods, a 26-year-old black man, in 2015 will likely go to trial, a federal judge indicated Wednesday.
Read moreEn Banc 9th Circuit Grills San Francisco on Soda Warning-Label Law
An expanded panel of Ninth Circuit judges on Tuesday reconsidered whether a San Francisco law requiring warning labels on billboard ads for soda passes constitutional muster, with the soda industry arguing that singling out sodas and other sugary drinks as the main contributor to health problems sends a misleading message to consumers.
Read moreGore Likens Climate Change to the Apocalypse at Global Summit
Former Vice President Al Gore, who jumpstarted global awareness of climate change as documented in the 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth,” pumped up attendees of the final day of an international summit in San Francisco with a rousing call to action.
Read moreSan Francisco 49ers
The Franklin Mieuli Trust asked San Francisco Superior Court to vacate an arbitrator’s ruling that the trust’s 5 percent interest in the San Francisco 49ers was worth just $22.6 million, despite estimates that the franchise is worth as much as $3 billion.
Read moreJudge Winnows Suit Over San Francisco Dock Fees
A private yacht company’s class action against San Francisco over excessive docking fees survives, even as a federal judge dismissed some of its claims Tuesday.
Read moreAssault & Battery
A 70-year-old man claims in court that NFL player Bruce William Miller beat him unconscious and beat up his developmentally disabled son two years ago, in the mistaken belief that he was entitled to the room at the co-defendant San Francisco Marriott Fisherman’s Wharf hotel in which they had been sleeping.
Read moreSewage Floods in San Francisco Jail Spur Lawsuit
Inmates at a San Francisco jail must endure almost daily floods of raw sewage with feces floating on the floor of cells where they eat and sleep, three prisoners claim in a new lawsuit.
Read moreSF Plastics Ban
San Francisco city leaders inched closer to banning all small plastic items Tuesday, with a plan to outlaw plastic straws, food containers and wrappers by July 2019 headed toward a final reading next week.
Read moreAppeals Court Rejects Effort to Drain Yosemite Reservoir
A conservation group can’t force San Francisco and other cities to stop taking water from a glacial reservoir in Yosemite National Park that serves 2.6 million Bay Area residents, a state appeals court ruled Monday.
Read moreFormer Police Chief’s Testimony Sought in Wrongful Death Suit
A federal judge on Thursday refused to rule out making San Francisco’s former police chief testify in a wrongful death suit that accuses the police department of breeding a culture of racial bias and excessive force.
Read moreSan Francisco Says Polluters Are Pulling a Fast One
San Francisco and Santa Clara County sued Sherwin-Williams and ConAgra Grocery Products Co. on Tuesday, seeking “to invalidate a highly deceptive and unconstitutional ballot initiative” the companies filed to try to duck a court judgment for hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up toxic lead paint.
Read moreSan Francisco OKs Project on Site of Toxic Cleanup Fraud
Despite recent findings of possible widespread fraud in the $1 billion cleanup of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco city officials on Tuesday approved moving forward with plans to build more than 10,000 homes on the potentially contaminated 400-acre site.
Read moreSan Francisco Delays Approval of ‘Gentrifying’ Housing Complex
Siding with anti-gentrification activists, San Francisco officials on Tuesday delayed the construction of an eight-story housing development in a historically Latino neighborhood, a move some critics say will exacerbate the city’s housing crisis.
Read moreFitbit Employees Charged With Having Stolen Trade Secrets
U.S. prosecutors have charged six current and former employees of San Francisco-based Fitbit, Inc. with possessing trade secrets stolen from rival company Jawbone.
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