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Lawsuit settlement between SF and the Academy of Art University rundown

Shelley Wang

December 13, 2019

On Dec. 5th the San Francisco Government Audit and Oversight Committee finalized the ordinance and ongoing lawsuit with the Academy of Art. The Academy of Art must pay the city $58 million and change buildings according to the correc...

Oakland A’s in deadlock due to lawsuit

Kerasa Dimitrios Tsokas

October 15, 2019

Major League Baseball commissioner, Robert Manfred, told Oakland officials earlier this month that unless the city drops its lawsuit, the Oakland A’s might have to relocate. The lawsuit, issued on Sept. 27, prevents Alameda...

San Francisco files joint lawsuit over Donald Trump’s newest anti-immigration policy

August 28, 2019

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit last week against Arab and Muslim Ethnicities Diaspora professor Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/Golden Gate Xpress)

Judge dismisses lawsuit alleging anti-Semitism against SF State and professor

November 7, 2018

Discrimination lawsuit dismissed

Ian Firstenberg

March 10, 2018

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Friday accusing SF State officials of tolerating and encouraging hostility toward Jewish members of the SF State community. The suit, stemming in part from the disruption of an April 201...

Jacqueline Foley, the president of Associated Students Inc. at SF State, is photographed on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018. (Adelyna Tirado & Aya Yoshida/Golden Gate Xpress)

ASI president wants Wong gone

February 21, 2018

Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi and her attorneys Ben Gharagozli and Mark Kleiman speak at a press conference after the trial filed against them and San Francisco State University by Lawfare Project was dismissed on Nov. 8, 2017. (Kelly Rodriguez Murillo/Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State Jewish students’ lawsuit alleging antisemitism dismissed

November 9, 2017

Lack of University involvement in lawsuit frustrates both plaintiffs and defendants

Kelly Rodriguez Murillo

November 6, 2017

*For safety reasons, a source's last name was retracted from this article. The trial for the lawsuit filed by Jewish San Francisco State University students and alumni is this week, Nov. 8, and the University has yet to be tr...

SF State sued twice before third week of fall semester

Brian Neumann

September 5, 2017

In the current political climate where social unrest pervades college campuses around the country, some SF State students think the university is at odds with its own values of equity, inclusion and diversity. With only the...

Detail of court document from case number CGC-15-43853 filed at San Francisco Superior Court on Oct. 23, 2016.

Suit accuses University of racial discrimination

September 28, 2016