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Tina Cavalleri, Mark Glinoga and Mengyao Yang filed a proposed antitrust class action in San Francisco federal court, accusing Hermès of forcing customers to buy other Hermès products before it will sell them a Birkin or Kelly bag.

US District Judge Charles Breyer granted California a temporary restraining order finding the federalization of the state's National Guard illegal and ordering control returned to Governor Newsom, a ruling the Ninth Circuit paused within hours.

U.S. District Judge Rita Lin let California buyers of Tesla's Full Self-Driving package sue as a class, citing Tesla's inability to 'demonstrate a long-distance autonomous drive with any of its vehicles' and its claim that every car had the hardware for full self-driving.

A Farmers Insurance customer sued Salesforce in San Francisco federal court, calling it the 'hub' of a breach that exposed the data of its corporate clients' customers.

After a three-day trial, Judge Charles Breyer found that the Trump administration used federalized Guard troops and Marines for civilian law enforcement in Los Angeles in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, and enjoined it across California.

U.S. District Judge James Donato dismissed with prejudice the Sherman Act claims that Hermès illegally tied Birkin bag sales to other purchases, ruling the plaintiffs never defined a viable product market or showed harm to competition.

Novelists Molly Tanzer and Jennifer Gilmore filed a proposed class action saying Salesforce trained its xGen language models on the Books3 trove of pirated books.

President Trump dropped a planned Saturday surge of federal agents into San Francisco after a late-night call in which Mayor Daniel Lurie told him the city was on the rise; Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reaffirmed it the next morning.

City Attorney David Chiu filed the first government lawsuit against ultra-processed food makers, accusing Kraft Heinz, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé USA and six others of engineering addictive products they knew made people sick.

Judge Charles Breyer granted California a preliminary injunction ending the continued federalization of the California National Guard troops still in and around Los Angeles, more than five months after they were sent.

Mayor Daniel Lurie signed the Family Zoning Plan, which allows taller, denser housing along transit and commercial corridors, mostly in the north and west of the city, to plan for about 36,000 more homes ahead of a 31 January 2026 state deadline.

Ride the moving landmark up Nob Hill from the Powell and Market turnaround.

California's utilities regulator approved the transfer of Frontier's California operations to Verizon with enforceable conditions, including $500 million in small-business spending, the final regulatory approval before the deal closed five days later.

Facing a $307 million shortfall, the SFMTA board unanimously passed a balanced two-year budget ($1.5 billion in FY2026-27, $1.6 billion in FY2027-28) that keeps Muni service whole for a year using a $200 million state loan, higher cable car fares and the end of the Clipper discount.

Mayor Daniel Lurie sent the supervisors a two-year $16.9 billion budget for FY2026-27 and 2027-28 that closes a $642 million deficit, eliminates 550 positions and spends reserves to keep residents on Medi-Cal and CalFresh as federal cuts land.

Proposition D, a labor-backed rise in San Francisco's tax on companies whose top executives earn 100 times their workers, projected at about $300 million a year, failed 52.8% to 47.2%; its business-backed rival, Measure C, lost 66% to 34%.

Led by Dykes on Bikes, the 56th SF Pride Parade filled Market Street from Beale Street to Civic Center on 28 June, with organisers expecting more than a million people over the weekend.

Appeals judges largely affirmed an injunction won by San Francisco and seven other local governments, stopping HUD and the Transportation Department from tying grants to anti-DEI, immigration and abortion conditions, protecting about $240 million a year in HUD money and $2 billion in DOT funding to the city.

Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley refused to dismiss most claims that Salesforce's lax OAuth security let hackers steal Allianz, Farmers and TransUnion customers' data.

San Francisco's November 3 ballot carries ten lettered city measures, from Mayor Lurie's executive-branch and contracting initiatives to a public bank, a Muni parcel tax and cars on the Great Highway, plus supervisor races in Districts 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10.

Judge Charles Breyer holds a case management conference in the authors' class action over Salesforce's xGen training data, with fact discovery due to close in July 2027.

A one-way cable car ride goes from $9 to $12 and a new $18 Cable Car Plus pass gives a day of unlimited Muni travel for one adult and up to two youth; the same month Muni ends its 15-cent Clipper discount, making the adult fare $3.

The previously reported March 2027 trial schedule has been superseded by settlements. A judge approved the states' agreement on September 30, and AP reported that the Writers Guild also settled its separate suit. Paramount completed the acquisition on October 6.

San Francisco Pride returns June 26-27, 2027 for its 57th annual celebration at Civic Center and parade down Market Street, one of the largest LGBTQ+ gatherings in the world.