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Three members of the women's field hockey team at Cal Berkeley are threatening to sue the university because it took away their field and decided to give a new field to the school's football team.
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The parents of a nine-year-old Fremont boy filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the local school district and one of its teachers claiming the teacher slapped the child during last April's STAR exams.
Some Bay Area fishermen are suing Pacific Gas & Electric, claiming the utility is responsible for massive contamination in and around Fisherman's Wharf.
A mother of a special-needs boy has filed a federal lawsuit against his former school in Antioch accusing school staff of inappropriately restraining him on multiple occasions and giving him a bloody nose, bruises and causing him to wet his pants.
Advocates have filed suit against the state, saying hundreds of thousands of low-income Californians are being denied medical care because of a huge backlog of Medi-Cal applications.
An attorney representing two Native Americans who were ejected from AT&T Park during a Giants' game last June has sent a letter to the team with a list of demands after filing a claim seeking damages against the city.
25-year-old Daniel McGuire was killed in the crash on July 10, when a big rig driver lost control of his vehicle while traveling northbound on Highway 17 near Lexington Reservoir.
A blind author and the National Federation of the Blind sued ridesharing company Uber in federal court in San Francisco Tuesday, alleging that it discriminates against blind riders with guide dogs.
A San Jose family is blaming San Jose police for the death of a teen killed by a stray bullet at a house party last year.
About 90 cheerleaders will receive checks after the class-action wage theft lawsuit was filed against the team back in January.
A lawyer for four small businesses said Wednesday his clients haven't yet decided whether to appeal a federal circuit court's dismissal of a lawsuit that claimed Yelp Inc. extorted advertising payments from them in exchange for manipulating online reviews.
Central Valley farmers opposed to construction of California's high-speed rail may face their last legal stop this week. Attorneys will petition the State Supreme Court to halt the rail plan dead in its tracks.
A federal judge in San Francisco declined Friday to issue an immediate order blocking a new city law that sharply increases the relocation payments landlords must give tenants evicted under the state's Ellis Act.
The nation's largest trash hauler has filed a lawsuit claiming the city of Oakland illegally awarded a $1 billion contract to a local garbage company.
The family of a 16-year-old Chinese girl, who was run over by fire rigs after the crash last year of Asiana Flight 214 at the San Francisco International Airport, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city on Wednesday saying that rescuers were reckless and poorly trained.
Health care providers and community members filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday to stop the downsizing and potential closure of Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo, which is seeing major cuts to staff and services amid longtime financial struggles.
A jury has awarded a $730,000 verdict to a whistleblower who reported on an unethical pain management study on prison inmates by researchers at the University of California, Davis.
The U.S. Forest Service will postpone a tree-thinning project intended to decrease the wildfire risk at Lake Tahoe after a lawsuit raised concern about its effect on an endangered frog species.
A federal judge rejected as too low a $324.5 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit alleging Google and Apple conspired with several other technology companies to block their top workers from getting better job offers.
Attorneys representing the family of former California football player Ted Agu filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Regents of the University of California.
California's highest court says people with Alzheimer's disease are not liable for injuries they may cause their paid in-home caregivers.
A group of African American BART workers said they found racist, threatening graffiti on their lockers, and don't feel safe at work.
The East Bay Municipal Utility District, Stege Sanitary District and six cities have agreed to pay $1.5 million in fines to settle allegations they allowed raw or partially treated sewage to flow into the San Francisco Bay.
