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On  September 10, 2020, in a long-awaited ruling, Judge Daniel Traynor allowed Dundon et al. v. Kirchmeier et al., the lawsuit challenging law enforcement’s Nov. 20, 2016, attack on water protectors on Backwater Bridge with firehoses, impact munitions, grenades and teargas, to move forward with …

KQED article on the May 28 California Supreme Court decision “. . . . The ruling is much more than an affirmation for those advocating for increased access to public records, and its reach goes far beyond Hayward’s body camera videos from 2014. ‘As we …

Today, in litigation brought by the National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (“NLGSF”), the California Supreme Court decided that public agencies may not charge the public for the cost of redacting electronic records under the California Public Records Act (“CPRA”). The decision in …

Oregon is poised to become the first state in the nation to impose statewide limits on how much landlords can raise rents after state lawmakers passed a sweeping measure on Tuesday. Read more here

The SF Board of Supervisors has passed a new ordinance to protect tenants in single family homes, which are not covered by rent control. Landlords of single family homes and condos cannot give tenants a huge rent increase in order to evict them without just …