Man Wrongly Imprisoned for 20 Years Settles Lawsuit With San Francisco
A man wrongly convicted of murder has settled his lawsuit against the city of San Francisco and the cop who allegedly framed him. The amount remains undisclosed.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Repeals Plan to Rename 44 Public Schools
Under threat of court action, the San Francisco school board on Tuesday rescinded a prior vote to rename 44 public schools as it faces litigation claiming it used a flawed and unfair process to push through the changes.
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Healthy Airports
San Francisco’s “Healthy Airport Ordinance” — which would require airlines servicing San Francisco International Airport to provide health care benefits to employees — overrides years of collective bargaining agreements, a collection of air carriers say in a federal complaint.
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Judge Refuses to Toss Suit Against Navy Contractor Accused of Environmental Fraud
U.S. Navy contractor Tetra Tech EC failed in its bid to get four lawsuits accusing it of falsifying soil tests for a radioactive cleanup project tossed out of court.
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Ex-School Board VP Demands Millions in Damages Over Ouster
The former vice president of the San Francisco School Board was removed over controversial tweets about Asian Americans.
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Judge Likely to Advance PG&E Suit Over Century-Old Pollution
PG&E could be held liable for continued discharges of pollution into the San Francisco Bay that came from a now-demolished gas factory operated at the turn of the century.
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Federal Stimulus Helps San Francisco Ax $630 Million From Budget Deficit
The Northern California city’s budget deficit is projected to shrink by hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to the support for cities included in the federal stimulus plan approved this month.
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San Francisco Fur Ban Survives Lawsuit
Finding little support for claims that a citywide ban on fur sales hinders international trade, a federal judge on Tuesday scrapped a lawsuit challenging San Francisco’s prohibition on selling fur coats and clothing.
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Judge Refuses to Make San Francisco Reopen All Public Schools
A judge found a proposed court order to make San Francisco reopen its public schools by April 30 would be “impermissibly vague and judicially unmanageable.”
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San Francisco Forensic Lab Worker Charged With Evidence Theft
San Francisco prosecutors must review thousands of potentially tainted cases stemming from Volk’s alleged theft of evidence from the medical examiner’s office, where he worked.
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Judge Won’t Force San Francisco Sheriff to Let Inmates Out for Exercise
The magistrate judge ruled she cannot upset the delicate balance between inmates’ mental health and protecting them from Covid-19.
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San Francisco Asks Judge to Force Its Schools to Reopen
A judge said he has reservations about “micromanaging” school reopening plans but also questioned why the city’s school district has no blueprint for bringing back middle and high school students.
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A Poisoned Process: Constitutional Scholar Says School Renaming Effort Lost Credibility
Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe weighs in on the San Francisco school board’s endeavor to change the names of 44 public schools, a process objectors have decried as unlawfully bereft of community input.
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San Francisco School Board Ordered to Drop Plans to Rename Schools
The San Francisco School Board’s decision to remove the names of historical and political figures from 44 public schools was done hastily, without due process and to the exclusion of opposing voices, a group of alumni and San Francisco taxpayers claim in a petition filed Thursday.
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Ninth Circuit Weighs Whether Inmates Are Constitutionally Entitled to Direct Sunlight
Last year, a federal judge ordered the city and county of San Francisco to provide inmates with an hour of unfiltered sunlight every week. On Thursday, the city argued before the Ninth Circuit that there is no such constitutional right.
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Ex-San Francisco Employee Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering
An ex-city employee will plead guilty to conspiring to launder money for a former city department head in the latest twist of an ongoing San Francisco public corruption scandal, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.
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Covid Safety
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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San Francisco School Reopening Plan Hits Snag With Teachers Union Dispute
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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Judge Considers Pandemic Isolation Strategy of Denying Jail Inmates Exercise
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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San Francisco Officials Put School Renaming Process on Hold
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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