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Google Claims Women Fudged Data, Denies Gender Pay Gap
Law360, San Francisco (May 7, 2021, 8:51 PM EDT) Google accused its female ex-employees Friday of having manipulated and fabricated data to support their accusations that the search behemoth systematically underpaid women and hired them at lower-level positions than their male peers, urging a California state judge not to certify a class of over 10,000 women.
Google s attorneys blasted as inaccurate expert analyses concluding that Google underpaid women and engaged in common practices adverse to women, urging San Francisco Superior Court Judge Andrew Y. S. Cheng during a remote hearing Friday to exclude the testimony of one of the experts and to deny class certification sought by four women who sued Google nearly four years.
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta, pictured in San Francisco on March 24, announced an effort to increase transparency into police shooting and misconduct records Friday, while omitting that his office is withholding the most crucial files.
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California s new Attorney General Rob Bonta announced an effort to increase transparency and accelerate the release of police use-of-force and misconduct records Friday, well over two years after a landmark police transparency law granted public access to those files and KQED requested them via the state Public Records Act.
But Bonta s press release glosses over or completely omits aspects of long-running litigation brought by KQED and the First Amendment Coalition, including the California Department of Justice s continued withholding of some of the most crucial files related to potential crimes committed by police officers, according to attorneys involved in the case.
Legal documents, which include the names of domestic violence victims and children caught in custody battles, have been left unmonitored in open boxes for weeks inside the lobby of the San Francisco Superior Courthouse, despite state laws that require the court to keep such information private. Florida Jun 9, 2019
When William Montanez was arrested on drug and firearm charges in Tampa, Flordia last June, police threatened him with jail time if he refused to hand over the passcodes to his iPhones. Montanez refused anyway and spent 44 days behind bars before the charged were dropped. While few would choose jail, Montanez’s decision reflects a growing resistance to law enforcement’s.
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Calif. Judge Defines Trade Secrets Contours In Skin-Care Row
Law360 (May 3, 2021, 11:12 PM EDT) A California state judge kept alive a lawsuit between friends-turned-foes over trade secrets behind a line of anti-aging beauty products, providing greater clarity in an order on the elements required to successfully plead a claim of threatened misappropriation of trade secrets.
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo said Thursday that the allegations brought by cosmetics creator Beauty Barrage LLC, Shielded. Beauty LLC and its founder Sonia Sommers support a reasonable inference that cosmetics manufacturer Dermaceutical Laboratories LLC and its co-president Wendy McEvoy possess Sommers trade secrets and intend to use or disclose them.
Have they learnt their lesson? Woke San Francisco board FINALLY hires consultant to re-open classrooms after rejecting the idea for entire year
In June last year, the San Francisco school board rejected a plan to hire a reopening consultant to help get kids safely back in class
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embers then described a firm recommended by Superintendent Vince Matthews as a crime syndicate because it had worked with charter schools
After overseeing one of the slowest school reopenings in the country, the board has now reversed its decision and agreed to hire outside help
The board was preoccupied with trying to rename so-called racist schools, as parents and children juggled virtual lessons and working from home