Since it appears that our lawsuit against SF Weekly and its parent company isheaded for trial the first week in January, and the Weekly has been running a lot of misleading stories about the case, I thought I’d post the key document in the case so far — our brief explaining why the case should not be dismissed and should go to trial.
Here’s the brief, as a pdf. Although it’s marked “confidential,” it was introduced and discussed in open court and is now public record.
The judge in the case, Richard Kramer, tossed out the SF Weekly’s summary judgment motion, and the court of appeals rejected an SF Weekly writ seeking to have that dismissal overturned. So the case is going forward, and if you read our brief, you can see what this is all about.