SAN FRANCISCO -- For many, small claims court acts as the go-to service for resolving a dispute when nothing else seems to work. However, that process can be quite frustrating, as it was for one local woman until she found a creative solution.
"Oso, sit. Oso sit. Good boy." Linda Huang and her border collie Australian Shepherd Oso have been nearly inseparable since she rescued him just before the start of the pandemic nearly two years ago.Huang received the scare of her life when Oso began acting sick after being taken to the beach by a dog-sitting company. She believes his illness was caused by something he ate.
"He started violently throwing up. That transitioned into two weeks of diarrhea -- bloody diarrhea -- it was terrible," Huang said.She filed a small claims court case against the company when it refused to take responsibility. However, the court rejected her claim when she couldn't find the proper office to serve the court papers.
"At this point I was already like hours of research into everything, and I'm just very tired. Then I found Dispute," said Huang.