SAN FRANCISCO - The Pacific Gas & Electric Company faces a lawsuit from a whole family that lost its ranch in the October 2019 Kincade fire, which ravaged more than 77,000 acres and 174 homes.
SAN FRANCISCO - The October 23, 2019, Sonoma County wildfire, known as the Kincade Fire, has sparked a lawsuit against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, whose power lines were allegedly responsible for the blaze.
SAN FRANCISCO - A Sonoma County man visiting a local Starbucks to get his daily dose of caffeine got a little bit more of a jolt than he asked for after he was electrocuted at the Starbucks on Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco, according to lawsuit documents filed on Feb. 1 in the San Francisco County Superior Court.
BakerHostetler announced that Robert A. Julian, Cecily A. Dumas and Kimberly Morris have joined the firm as partners, adding to the firm’s West Coast presence. All three attorneys are resident in Northern California.
An environmental group brought a federal lawsuit against two landowners for allegedly threatening the Sonoma County population of the California tiger salamander.
SAN FRANCISCO – A California man recently filed a notice of removal in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California regarding a lawsuit against the state of California over alleged deprivations of fundamental rights in a dispute involving child custody.
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California claiming that Republic Services of Sonoma County Inc. is violating the Clean Water Act by dumping polluted storm water into area rivers.
SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s ruling rejecting a legal effort by sex workers in California to have the state’s laws against prostitution declared unconstitutional.
The California First District Court of Appeal recently ruled that the construction of a movie theater in Hesperia was a "public works" according to the state's minimum wage law.
SAN FRANCISCO – Coastal Hills Rural Preservation (CHRP) has asked a state court of appeals to address three issues in regards to the master use permit issued by Sonoma
County to the Ratna Ling Retreat Center.
PETALUMA – A California appeals court ruled in June that the city of Petaluma is not required to share a report related to the investigation of a 2014 sexual harassment claim filed against the city by former Petaluma firefighter and paramedic Andrea Waters.
SAN FRANCISCO – A Sonoma County organization is suing the administrator of the United States Small Business Administration over allegations it issued a misleading report.
SAN FRANCISCO – A Sonoma County couple has filed suit against the makers of Roundup alleging that it distributed herbicides that are dangerous to human health.
SAN FRANCISCO – A Sonoma County man alleges a pharmaceutical company did not warn consumers about the purported side effects of a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction.
