Over 50 Bay Area restaurants and wineries served Gov. Gavin Newsom with a lawsuit Tuesday asking that he take back his order for regional bans on outdoor dining. The class action suit brought by the Wine Country Coalition for Safe Reopening seeks to enjoin Newsom’s December ban on outdoor dining and wine tasting. Public Health Director Tomás J. Aragón is
Judge Denies Epic Games Request for Apple to Hand Over Global Business Docs in App Store Lawsuit
By Nate Jackson
Epic Games was not able to convince a California federal judge that Apple should hand over documents that show its foreign business activities as part of the video game maker’s antitrust fight with the tech giant over its App Store fees.
The request was denied Thursday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas S. Hixson, who held that Epic, which produced the…
Deputy District Attorney’s Union Sues DA George Gascón Over Sentencing Enhancement Policy
By Nate Jackson
The union representing Los Angeles County deputy district attorneys sued District Attorney George Gascón on Wednesday to stop him from dropping sentence enhancements and other dramatic changes that have defied state law according to rank-and-file prosecutors.
The lawsuit, filed in Superior Court, is the most public expression of backlash against Gascón within his own office since being sworn in Dec.…