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Consumer Protection

City Attorney secures $1 million dollar judgment against company whose marketing impersonated government and deceived small businesses

January 28, 2025October 23, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Court order holds Personnel Concepts accountable for scamming small businesses and provides restitution to over 13,000 affected California consumers

Categories Consumer Protection, News

City Attorney sues most-visited websites that create nonconsensual deepfake pornography

January 28, 2025August 15, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
AI-generated nonconsensual explicit images of real adults and minors cause immeasurable harm and violate state and federal laws

Categories Consumer Protection, News

Chiu bans unscrupulous towing company from receiving City contracts

January 28, 2025July 23, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Auto Towing, a company that profited from illegally towing parked cars, is debarred and prohibited from doing business with the City

Categories Code Enforcement, Consumer Protection, News, Public Integrity

Joint Statement by City Attorney David Chiu and Treasurer José Cisneros regarding the Supreme Court’s decision in CFPB v. Community Financial Services Association of America

January 28, 2025May 16, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Joint Statement by City Attorney David Chiu and Treasurer José Cisneros regarding the Supreme Court’s decision in CFPB v. Community Financial Services Association of America

Categories Consumer Protection, News

Federal court dismisses U.S. News and World Report’s baseless lawsuit against City Attorney

January 28, 2025May 7, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Federal judge rejects U.S. News and World Report’s attempts to obstruct investigation into the company’s undisclosed financial ties to hospitals it ranks

Categories Consumer Protection, News

Chiu highlights consumer protection efforts during Consumer Protection Week

January 28, 2025March 6, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
The City Attorney encourages consumers to report businesses that deceive or defraud consumers

Categories Consumer Protection, News

City Attorney seeks to dismiss U.S. News and World Report’s baseless lawsuit

January 28, 2025February 29, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
The City Attorney’s brief pushes back on U.S. News and World Report’s attempts to obstruct investigation into the company’s undisclosed financial ties to hospitals it ranks

Categories Consumer Protection, News

Chiu suspends unscrupulous towing company after owners are charged with benefits fraud

January 28, 2025February 6, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Auto Towing business owners, who profited from illegally towing parked cars, were recently criminally charged in a welfare fraud scheme

Categories Code Enforcement, Consumer Protection, News, Public Integrity

U.S. News and World Report tries to obstruct investigation of unlawful business practices

January 28, 2025January 31, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
U.S. News and World Report has filed a baseless lawsuit to shut down an investigation into the company’s undisclosed financial ties to hospitals it endorses

Categories Consumer Protection, News

City Attorney sues maker of Vanilla gift cards over consumer scams

January 28, 2025November 20, 2023 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Ahead of the holiday shopping season, City Attorney is taking action to protect and seek restitution for consumers who have been victims of “card draining”

Categories Consumer Protection, News

Problematic COVID test sites cease operations after City enforcement action

January 28, 2025November 16, 2023 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Gentech agrees to cease San Francisco operations after City investigation revealed cash payments given to test takers facilitated drug activity

Categories Consumer Protection, News

Chiu moves to block unscrupulous towing company from City contracts

January 28, 2025August 3, 2023 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
 Auto Towing profited from illegally towing parked cars and installing fraudulent, misleading signs on private property

Categories Code Enforcement, Consumer Protection, News, Public Integrity

U.S. News & World Report faces legal scrutiny over dubious hospital rankings

January 28, 2025June 20, 2023 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
San Francisco City Attorney investigates questionable methodology and undisclosed financial links with highly ranked hospitals

Categories Consumer Protection, News

San Francisco and San Diego City Attorneys subpoena Home Title Lock over deceptive advertising

January 28, 2025April 10, 2023 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Company uses prominent conservatives to target elderly homeowners and stoke fear about unfounded threat of home title theft

Categories Consumer Protection, News

Chiu sues company impersonating government and defrauding small businesses

January 28, 2025March 9, 2023 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Lawsuit comes as City Attorney’s Office launches new consumer protection efforts

Categories Consumer Protection, News

City Attorneys and County Counsels Applaud New California Consumer Protection Law

January 28, 2025September 29, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Governor signs bill to provide certain city attorneys and county counsels the same investigative tools as their district attorney counterparts in consumer protection cases

Categories Consumer Protection, News

Court finds predatory immigration consulting business violated the law

January 28, 2025September 15, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Judge grants the City’s motion to stop Leo Lacayo from providing fraudulent immigration services that put immigrant communities at risk

Categories Consumer Protection, Illegal Businesses, News

City Attorney takes legal action to stop predatory immigration consulting business

January 28, 2025August 11, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
City files motion to stop Lacayo & Associates from providing fraudulent immigration services that put immigrant communities at risk

Categories Consumer Protection, Illegal Businesses, News

City Attorney provides update on rogue COVID testing sites investigation

January 9, 2024March 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

January 9, 2024January 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
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