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Defending S.F. Laws

Herrera moves to block Nuru-linked AzulWorks from future City contracts

July 14, 2020 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
AzulWorks, Inc. provided illegal gifts to former Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru as part of a bribery scheme while receiving 16 contracts from the City

Categories Defending S.F. Laws, News, Public Integrity

City Attorney, SFPD shut down illegal nightclub operating during pandemic

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Surveillance video shows more than 150 people streaming into illegal nightclub over 48 hours, endangering public health and threatening to spread coronavirus

Categories Defending S.F. Laws, News, Public Safety

Herrera moves to shut down rogue party attempting to profit off the coronavirus

March 25, 2020April 13, 2020 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney works with SFPD to protect public health and prevent illegal gathering during pandemic

Categories Defending S.F. Laws, News, Public Safety

Herrera uncovers $420,000 in check fraud by former building commission president

March 12, 2020 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Forged permit scandal at Santos & Urrutia Associates grows to nine properties

Categories Code Enforcement, Defending S.F. Laws, Neighborhood 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, NewsTags 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 statement on California Supreme Court upholding San Francisco’s wireless regulations

April 4, 2019April 10, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
San Francisco’s approach strikes the right balance

Categories Defending S.F. Laws, Land Use, Neighborhood Protection, NewsTags T-Mobile

Appellate court rules Trump’s sanctuary executive order is unconstitutional

August 1, 2018August 19, 2020 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agrees with lower court, says the president exceeded his authority

Categories Defending S.F. Laws, News, Sanctuary Cities

Herrera wins victory for low-income tenants

April 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, News, Tenants

Statement from City Attorney Dennis Herrera on Sessions’ ‘religious liberty’ memo

October 6, 2017December 13, 2017 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
The attorney general’s memo claiming that religious freedom is a license to discriminate is breathtaking in its scope

Categories Defending S.F. Laws, Defending Voters' Will, Marriage Equality, News

Court rejects Trump arguments; executive order on sanctuary cities remains blocked

July 20, 2017July 20, 2017 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Federal judge denies president’s request to lift the enforcement freeze and rejects President’s motion to dismiss Herrera’s lawsuit challenging the executive order.

Categories Defending S.F. Laws, Major Case, News, Sanctuary Cities

Herrera statement on USDOJ sanctuary cities guidance memo

May 22, 2017February 5, 2018 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo on President Trump’s Executive Order regarding sanctuary cities

Categories Defending Public Funds, Defending S.F. Laws, News, Sanctuary Cities

The Facts About Immigration Law

May 17, 2017May 17, 2017 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Setting the Record Straight on Local Involvement in Federal Civil Immigration Enforcement

Categories Defending S.F. Laws, Major Case, News, Sanctuary Cities

Herrera urges HUD to reconsider

August 25, 2016September 22, 2017 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney Dennis Herrera has urged HUD Secretary Julián Castro to reverse its disapproval of of San Francisco's Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Plan.
S.F. City Attorney contends that the federal housing agency was “wrong as a matter of law and public policy” to reject San Francisco’s Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Plan

Categories Affordable Housing, Defending S.F. Laws, Land Use, Neighborhood Protection, News, Tenants

Amendments proposed to strengthen City’s short-term rental law against legal challenge

July 12, 2016September 22, 2017 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
San Francisco Supervisor David Campos.
Campos and Herrera agree that modest revisions can both address platforms’ objections in federal lawsuit and fulfill the intent of a fair, enforceable ordinance

Categories Affordable Housing, Defending S.F. Laws, Land Use, News, Tenants

Federal judge calls Sanders backers’ arguments ‘hot air’—denies bid for emergency injunction

June 1, 2016June 1, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Deputy City Attorney Joshua White, pictured earlier this year at the City Attorney's Ethics Training Program, argued for the City and County of San Francisco.
U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup rules from the bench that plaintiffs made ‘absolutely no showing of a violation of federal law’

Categories Defending Public Funds, Defending S.F. Laws, Defending Voters' Will, News

Hearing TODAY on Sanders backers’ bid for injunction in Calif. Primary

June 1, 2016June 1, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
A U.S. District Court in San Francisco's Phillip Burton Federal Building will hear arguments on June 1 on a preliminary injunction in the California Presidential Primary.
Plaintiffs in lawsuit against San Francisco, Alameda and state elections officials seek sweeping injunctive relief in the nation’s largest Presidential Primary

Categories Defending Public Funds, Defending S.F. Laws, Defending Voters' Will, News

Hearing set in Bernie Sanders backers’ injunction bid for Calif. Primary: June 1, at 11:00 a.m.

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who is defending San Francisco in the litigation, said: “This politically-motivated lawsuit is without merit, and there is no basis for an emergency injunction.”
Plaintiffs seek a sweeping federal injunction in the nation’s largest Presidential Primary contest—including statewide TV and radio ads, new poll worker requirements

Categories Defending Public Funds, Defending S.F. Laws, Defending Voters' Will, News

Sanders backers will seek emergency injunction from federal court on Friday in Calif. Primary

May 26, 2016May 27, 2016 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.”
Defending San Francisco, Herrera calls it unfortunate that plaintiffs would ‘inject confusion and uncertainty into an election that has been underway for weeks’

Categories Defending Public Funds, Defending S.F. Laws, Defending Voters' Will, News

Federal suit by Sanders backers an improper ‘political stunt,’ San Francisco City Attorney says

May 24, 2016May 24, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera blasted the lawsuit by backers of Sen. Bernie Sanders, saying: “Every violation alleged in this federal lawsuit—literally every single one of them—is factually inaccurate.”
Rife with factual inaccuracies, complaint seeks relief like ‘re-votes’ and deadline extensions that ‘would wreak havoc’ on California’s June 7 Presidential Primary

Categories Defending Public Funds, Defending S.F. Laws, Defending Voters' Will, News
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