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Consumer Class Action Certified
An Oregon federal judge on Friday certified a class of law offices accusing a virtual receptionist service of misleading billing practices, ruling that the fact that a small...
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Whose Work Is It Anyway?
In my last column, I accused Salon of screwing its freelancers. That's an opinion, but it's a fact that Salon recently mailed contracts to freelancers who neve...

Displaced tenants sue over hotel fire
Fifteen former Leland Hotel tenants who lost their homes and property in a fire last December are suing the hotel owners and the companies believed to have caused t...

Mid-Market live-work tenants sue over evictions
Several tenants in a live-work Mid-Market building in San Francisco are suing the landlords, alleging harassment to force them out, as the property will be more lu...