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A rash of legal disputes in San Francisco is highlighting the city's ongoing conflict over how to tackle homelessness. Driving the news: Hundreds of people faced off in dueling protests outside the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday as the city fights a temporary court order preventing it from clearing homeless encampments. The Coalition on Homelessness (COH) plans to request that a district court appoint a special master to ensure the city's compliance with the order at a hearing Thursday, the San Francisco Standard reports. Catch up quick: The nonprofit filed a lawsuit last fall alleging San Francisco violates...

Two major tech conferences scheduled to book thousands of hotel rooms in crime-infested San Francisco have been canceled. The San Francisco Business Times reports that the “IBM-owned open-source software giant Red Hat Inc. has canceled plans to host its annual technology summit at San Francisco’s Moscone Center in 2024 and 2025.” Two years wiped off the books. The report adds that both the 2024 and 2025 conferences would have generated around 40,000 hotel nights. Instead, the conferences are moving to Denver in 2024 and Orlando in 2025.