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Consumer Protection

City Attorney provides update on rogue COVID testing sites investigation

June 30, 2022March 11, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Investigation has brought vast majority of testing operators into compliance.

Categories Consumer Protection, News

City Attorney Chiu Subpoenas COVID Testing Operator

June 30, 2022January 20, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Subpoenas come out of recently launched City Attorney investigation into rogue COVID testing sites

Categories Consumer Protection, News

City Attorney Chiu Initiates Investigation into Rogue COVID Testing Operators

June 30, 2022January 11, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
City Attorney demands transparency to ensure the integrity of COVID testing in San Francisco

Categories Consumer Protection, News

Herrera statement on voters rejecting Juul’s ballot measure

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
San Francisco voters are too smart to be fooled by Juul.

Categories Consumer Protection, Defending S.F. Laws, E-cigarettes, News Tags E-cigarettes, epidemic, Juul, public health, vaping

Herrera takes on tour bus company that cheated workers out of health care

October 10, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Sightseeing refused to pay health care costs for 215 employees and thumbed its nose at the law

Categories Consumer Protection, Defending S.F. Laws, News

Herrera sues JustFly and FlightHub over hidden fees and other predatory scams

September 19, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
‘JustFly is not in the travel business. They’re in the hidden fee business.’

Categories Consumer Protection, News, Transportation

California cities and counties announce groundbreaking $305 million settlement of landmark lead paint litigation

July 17, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
San Francisco will get about $21 million to protect children and families from lead paint hazards

Categories Consumer Protection, Environment, Lead Paint, Major Case, News

Herrera statement on e-cigarette legislation final vote

June 25, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Board of Supervisors passes legislation unanimously on second vote

Categories Consumer Protection, E-cigarettes, Illegal Businesses, News

Hertz & ATS cut fees, to pay $3.65M to settle Golden Gate Bridge toll case

February 19, 2019February 19, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Herrera lawsuit saves consumers millions of dollars and establishes industry-leading disclosures regarding PlatePass toll service

Categories Consumer Protection, News, Transportation

Herrera sues major drug producers and wholesalers for fueling opioid epidemic

September 3, 2020December 18, 2018 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Lawsuit also names Sackler family members as defendants. The family made billions off OxyContin and other drugs while creating millions of addicts.

Categories Consumer Protection, Illegal Businesses, News, Opioids

Herrera tells Trump consumer protection chief to stop undermining the will of Congress

May 14, 2018May 14, 2018 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
“San Francisco’s Department of Elections and its employees have been doing an exemplary job,” Herrera said. “I’m equally confident that our co-defendants are also meeting or exceeding their legal duties.”
Don’t abandon the country’s most vulnerable consumers, Herrera tells Mulvaney

Categories Consumer Protection, News

Herrera wins victory for low-income tenants

June 30, 2022April 12, 2018 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Deputy City Attorneys Sara Eisenberg and Brad Russi discuss litigation strategy after winning a key procedural ruling on March 22, 2016.
Appellate court upholds SF law that prevents discrimination against Section 8 renters; Lembi-affiliated landlord, real estate broker must accept federal housing vouchers

Categories Affordable Housing, Consumer Protection, Defending S.F. Laws, Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Tenants

Statement from City Attorney Dennis Herrera on California Supreme Court denying review of lead paint case

February 15, 2018February 15, 2018 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Dennis Herrera at a City Hall press conference
Herrera called this ‘a major victory for California children and families’

Categories Consumer Protection, Lead Paint, News

Herrera takes Turo to court for cheating their competition and SFO

January 24, 2018 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Web-based rental car company refuses to get permit, pay fees, or follow traffic congestion rules, unlike all other ‘off-airport’ rental car companies operating at SFO

Categories Consumer Protection, News, Transportation

Herrera sues PG&E for costs over negligent work that caused landslide and damaged homes

January 17, 2018October 18, 2017 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
PG&E’s shoddy work resulted in a Casitas Avenue landslide that destroyed one home and damaged five others, leaving the city to foot the nearly $8 million bill 

Categories Consumer Protection, Defending Public Funds, News

Herrera sues Equifax over massive data breach

September 27, 2017September 26, 2017 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Company knew it had been hacked but didn’t alert consumers for six weeks

Categories Consumer Protection

Court rules that ‘corrective education’ scheme is extortion

January 17, 2018August 15, 2017 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera said today's ruling "goes to the heart of CEC's predatory business model, which is predicated on threats, deception and falsehoods."
‘This is textbook extortion,’ court finds. Herrera wins on two key issues in the case.

Categories Consumer Protection, Illegal Businesses, News

Herrera sues Hertz for bilking customers with hidden Golden Gate Bridge ‘toll service’ fees

February 7, 2019March 1, 2017 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Thousands of unwitting Hertz customers routinely charged $32.25 for a single bridge crossing. Case brought to counter long-standing problem and compensate victims.   

Categories Consumer Protection, News, Transportation

San Francisco City Attorney’s Office warns public about phishing emails

October 24, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
The emails falsely claim to be sent by the S.F. City Attorney’s Office to collect on an overdue invoice

Categories Consumer Protection, News

Herrera sues fraudulent immigration consulting business for unlawfully providing legal services

August 30, 2016August 30, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
“The court forcefully affirmed San Francisco’s interest in protecting public health, and repeatedly emphasized the likelihood that the sugary soda lobby’s case would fall flat,” City Attorney Dennis Herrera said.
For decades, Lacayo & Associates defrauded clients with large fees for services they were neither qualified nor legally authorized to provide—risking clients’ immigration cases

Categories Consumer Protection, News
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