The San Francisco County Superior Court rejected the National Retail Federation, the Western Growers Association and other retail and agricultural industry groups’ requests for an injunction to block the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board from enforcing safety measures adopted to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
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The city’s school board adopted health and safety guidelines for reopening schools, but a conflict with teachers over in-person instruction time could derail plans to bring kids back inside classrooms this year.
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A federal judge said keeping inmates in their cells for days — and depriving them of fresh air and exercise — may be doing them more harm than any potential exposure to the Covid-19 virus.
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The city’s school board president said a debate over changing school names has become a distraction as the district shifts its focus to reopening, rather than renaming, school buildings.
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Residents say the area is already too congested to handle the planned 1,200 housing units and what would amount to a brand new hospital.
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A pipeline rupture that gushed hundreds of gallons of oil into the San Francisco Bay spurred a class action filed Tuesday that accuses a Chevron refinery of prioritizing profits over safety and threatening the survival of herring in the area for years to come.
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Florence Kong, owner of several construction firms, was the first person sentenced in a corruption scandal that has taken down four high-ranking city government officials.
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The city of San Francisco escalated a legal scuffle with its own school district Tuesday with new claims that the failure to reopen school buildings violates students’ rights and discriminates against low-income children.
Read moreA federal court in California granted class certification to a pilot who claims Southwest Airlines does not pay employees who take short-term military leave while paying workers who take comparable leave.
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The city’s decision to release portions of recordings of an officer beating a suspect with a baton undercut its arguments for keeping the rest of the videos sealed, a judge said.
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The city claims the school district’s plan for reopening is inadequate and fails to meet the standards required by the state of California.
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The city’s mayor, police chief and district attorney emphasized a commitment to prosecuting violent crimes after two deadly attacks on senior citizens last week.
Read moreAn appeals court in California upheld the removal of a 124-year-old statue — depicting a cowboy and Catholic priest standing over a fallen Native American — in San Francisco’s Civic Center in 2018. The plaintiffs claimed its removal in the early morning hours the day after a city board approved it was illegal, but the court ruled they can use the “electoral process as a means to continue advocating for their point of view.”
Read moreAn appeals court in California upheld a ruling that determined only a simple majority vote, rather than a two-thirds majority, is required to approve a new San Francisco tax on some commercial rents to fund early child care and education programs.
Read morehe Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of plaintiffs’ claims against a man they accuse of directing terrorist acts in Cameroon, from his residence in San Jose, California, through a separatist movement that was responsible for the deaths of their family members and others.
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They were honored with grand memorials in the nation’s capital and hailed as two of the greatest American presidents but George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are no longer welcome as names of San Francisco public schools.
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The utility will fund a cleanup and restoration project at the Marina Small Craft Harbor following a 2001 lawsuit over contamination from factories used to create gas from coal over a century ago.
Read moreA class of former and current pretrial detainees at a San Francisco jail may pursue their claims that their constitutional rights were violated when they were strip searched and denied opportunities for outdoor recreation, a federal court in California ruled.
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Less than two months after her husband, a former city department head, was arrested on federal bribery charges and forced to resign, San Francisco’s highest-ranking unelected official announced Tuesday that she, too, will step down.
Read moreA federal court in California dismissed NantWorks’ suit alleging Niantic’s augmented-reality gaming apps “Pokémon Go” and “Harry Potter: Wizards Unite” infringed on its patents.
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