UC Berkeley admitted to discriminating against an Israeli researcher, agreed to reverse course and invite her to teach on campus and will pay $60,000, in a settlement of her lawsuit alleging she was ousted over nationality, announced Wednesday. Yael Nativ, a dance researcher and sociologist, sued the university for violating state anti-discrimination laws when UC Berkeley allegedly denied her a teaching opportunity after the department chair sent Nativ a WhatsApp message saying the situation on campus was too hot following student-led pro-Palestinian protests.
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today to prevent President Donald Trump from replacing a beautiful picture of Glacier National Park with a close-up of his own face on the America the Beautiful National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Annual Pass, reads a press release. Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center, blasted the president's image being used on passes as his crassest, most ego-driven action yet.
A less-redacted court filing in a lawsuit against Mat Ishbia includes new financial details that two Phoenix Suns minority owners say could threaten Ishbia's majority ownership of the team. The filing, a copy of which was obtained by ESPN on Tuesday, is from a lawsuit filed Nov. 24 in Delaware State Court by attorneys representing Scott Seldin and Andy Kohlberg, two Suns minority owners.
Originally scheduled to start March 9, 2026, the It Ends With Us trial now starts on May 18, per . Judge Lewis J. Liman of the Southern District of New York explained that two criminal trials that "take precedent" over a civil trial. The next hearing is on January 22, and Judge Liman reportedly told the parties at a post-discovery hearing on December 9 to talk about settlements, if needed.
A passenger who died on a Royal Caribbean cruise was doused with pepper spray and physically restrained by staff members after he was served 33 alcoholic drinks and became violent, according to a lawsuit the man's family filed against the company. Video from aboard the Royal Caribbean Cruises ship showed Michael Virgil at times screaming, kicking at a door, shirtless and then being restrained on the ground.
I am duty bound to take action to protect my family against those who maliciously defame and attack us. More to come on that soon, Johnson posted on X on Sunday. He then asked for his 4 million followers to pray for healing for some really sick and delusional people. Jesus is about redemption. The legal system is about justice.
What happened when the two parties met is the subject of a lawsuit that Rizzbot's creators, Social Robotics, detailed in a petition filed in November against Speed, né Darren Jason Watkins Jr., his management company, Mixed Management, and another producer who was with Speed's team that day. The petition, obtained by TechCrunch, alleges that Speed inflicted "irreparable damage" to Rizzbot.
In new court documents filed late Thursday, attorneys for the Rose Bowl Operating Co. and the City of Pasadena contended that "upon information and belief," in late 2024 or early 2025, Kroenke Sports & Entertainment executives openly suggested that SoFi Stadium was pursuing UCLA, "demonstrating the SoFi defendants' intent to induce UCLA's breach and disturb UCLA's performance of the agreement" from a contract that binds the Bruins to play at the Rose Bowl through the 2043 season.
The argument: The city used an environmental impact report done for the 2022 Housing Element of the General Plan to fulfill the requirements that the upzoning undergo review under the California Environmental Quality Act. The Yimby movement hates CEQA, but the law exists for a very good reason: Before any major project that could impact the environment gets approval, the public has the right to know what those impacts might be.
The Tribune alleges that its lawyers contacted Perplexity in mid-October asking if the AI search engine was using its content, according to the complaint. Perplexity's lawyers replied it did not train models with the Tribune's work, but that it "may receive non-verbatim factual summaries," the lawsuit claims. The Tribune's lawyers, however, argue that Perplexity is delivering Tribune content verbatim. Interestingly, the newspaper's lawyers are also calling out Perplexity's Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) as a culprit.
It was the privilege of a lifetime to be able to serve in the National Guard for 13 years and do the things that I got to do there, meet the people that I met, but really, it was about service to others, which I think is an important thing for all of us to keep in mind and something we should dedicate a little bit of our time to every day.
Bon appétit! Katy Perry was swaggering about in a garish new hat. She seemed to say "Look at me, Instagram, I've got a new hat." The hat in question was a full Thanksgiving feast, made of what looks like Sculpey. You've got a well-brined bird, cranberry sauce, decorative gourds. The works, in other words. Perry captioned her Reel "Hatty Thanksgiving."
The brief, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California but is not yet public, reportedly claims the study, called Project Mercury, was initiated in 2019 and was meant to explore the impact of apps on polarization, news-consumption habits, "well-being, and daily social interactions." Plaintiffs in the suit say social media companies were aware that these platforms had a negative impact on the mental health of children and young adults but did not act to prevent it.
Members of the Board of Supervisors are calling for action and accountability after Mission Local reported that women held in a San Francisco jail were allegedly forced to undress in front of each other while sheriff's deputies watched and filmed them with their body-worn cameras. Late Thursday afternoon, 17 women filed a claim with the city saying that deputies violated multiple laws and policies in May when they strip searched them en masse while male deputies were present.
For months, shady organizations and individuals carried out a smear and harassment campaign designed to intimidate and silence me, said Khalil in a statement to the Center for Constitutional Rights. The public deserves full accountability for every bad actor who helped make that possible, including those at Columbia who fabricated and amplified these smears and opened the door for state retaliation against Palestinian speech.
They took her answer out and they gave her a totally different answer using her. At least they used her, but they took it from 20 minutes or something later in the interview. In other words, they took some other answer to a totally different question. And it was still a lousy answer. But it wasn't election threatening, right? And we just settled that case. But that's not as bad as what BBC did.
SAN JOSE - For nearly two decades, frustrations between residents of Country View Custom Estates and the city have festered. Residents of the wealthy "restrictive access" Almaden Valley enclave has long sought to install gates around their community, pointing to brazen criminals who have tormented the neighborhood with waves of home invasions, burglaries, robberies, car break-ins, hate crimes, mail and package thefts, and trespassing on their private streets. San Jose's planning department, however, has denied their requests three times - most recently last year.
A Philadelphia woman alleges Los Angeles Rams left tackle Alaric Jackson recorded her without her consent during sex, repeatedly refused to delete the video and taunted her with it, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, said that the woman, who is not named, reported the incident to the NFL, which investigated Jackson and suspended him.
The Air Force's own regulations state that once retirement orders are issued, they can only be rescinded in certain limited circumstances, such as fraud or a mathematical error. None of those circumstances are present for these service members, and the Air Force has not provided any legal basis for rescinding the retirements.
If you have a mobile phone, you have no doubt seen some dodgy texts. They might declare that you have an overdue road toll, and urge you to "Click here to pay." Or maybe they inform you that there's a package waiting, but the address is wrong; "Click here to fix it." More often than not, these texts are scams. The websites you are directed to are fakes, often decked out with a misappropriated Google logo to trick you into typing in sensitive payment or sign-in information. It's called a "phishing" attack or "smishing" when it's done via SMS.
The incident happened on November 15, 2023, amid a series of scattered protests focused on a range of issues, as international delegates and President Biden came to town for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' summit. This was just a month after Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel, and Israel's subsequent mass bombing campaign in Gaza, and protest energy was high all over the Bay Area.
