A dispute between Alameda’s firefighters and city officials over what firefighters believe may have been a unilateral and illegal move on the city’s part to shrink their future colleagues’ retiree medical and dental benefits is …

Alameda’s city attorney is denying SunCal’s claim that the city violated a contract offering the developer exclusive rights to negotiate a deal to develop Alameda Point. The Southern California developer sued the city Wednesday in …

The Peralta Community College District has settled a federal lawsuit brought by two College of Alameda students who were disciplined for praying at school, writes the Contra Costa Times’ Matt Krupnick.
Krupnick reports that the college …

Updated 3:12 p.m. Wednesday, March 10

A jury has granted a $1.95 million judgment to a company that sued the city over money it said it was owed from Alameda’s former telecommunications business. The judgment came …

Alameda is one of seven cities and sewer districts being sued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of that agency’s effort to prevent sewage spills into San Francisco Bay.
On November 20, the environmental …

Updated 4:04 p.m.
The Alameda Unified School District and businesses who sued over the Measure H parcel tax could settle the cases, attorneys working on them said today.
David Nied, an attorney working for the district, said …

Updated 11:48 a.m. Friday, July 31
Facing serious challenges to their lawsuits to invalidate Measure H, local businesses are taking their case against the school parcel tax to the public.
Steve Meckfessel, an owner of the marina …

Updated 2:15 p.m. Thursday, July 9
The city has prevailed in the latest legal appeal over the Alameda Belt Line property. And they said in a just-issued press statement that the owners of the Belt Line …

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Mark Burr denied local yacht merchant and landowner John Beery’s request that he judge in Beery’s favor in the local yacht merchant’s case to invalidate the Measure H parcel …

Updated 2:19 p.m. Wednesday, July 8
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Mark Burr has made a tentative ruling in John Beery’s case against the Measure H parcel tax. Judge Burr has denied Beery’s request that …

Local business owners asked the school board Tuesday night to consider allowing them to move their legal efforts to invalidate Measure H into mediation.
The school board offered no public comment on the matter, with President …

Updated 1:23 p.m. Sunday, June 14

I’ve spent the last day or so following up on a letter an Oakland attorney sent to City Attorney Teresa Highsmith claiming that the proposed Alameda Point development initiative – …