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Consumer protection

Court finds predatory immigration consulting business violated the law

October 17, 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, Immigration, News

City Attorney takes legal action to stop predatory immigration consulting business

October 17, 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, Immigration, 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

City Attorney Chiu Initiates Investigation into Rogue COVID Testing Operators

January 9, 2024January 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 sues JustFly and FlightHub over hidden fees and other predatory scams

November 5, 2025September 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

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

October 17, 2025July 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, News

Herrera statement on California Supreme Court upholding San Francisco’s wireless regulations

October 17, 2025April 4, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
San Francisco’s approach strikes the right balance

Categories Consumer protection, News Tags T-Mobile

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

November 5, 2025February 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

Herrera statement on U.S. Supreme Court denying review of lead paint case

October 17, 2025October 15, 2018 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
The court’s decision marks a major victory in the historic case after nearly two decades of litigation

Categories Consumer protection, News, Public health

San Francisco, Santa Clara County and several public officials file lawsuit challenging lead paint manufacturers’ unconstitutional ballot initiative

October 17, 2025June 26, 2018 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Unlawful, deceptive initiative seeks to eliminate multimillion dollar judgment against The Sherwin-Williams Company and ConAgra Grocery Products

Categories Consumer protection, News, Public health

Get the Facts About Lead Paint

October 17, 2025June 7, 2018 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Learn more about the lead paint litigation, ballot initiative and legislation here.

Categories Consumer protection, News, Public health

CA Cities and Counties announce settlement agreement with NL Industries on lead paint

October 17, 2025May 17, 2018 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
NL to provide $60.2 million in funding to address lead paint in homes across California

Categories Consumer protection, News, Public health

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

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

October 17, 2025February 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, News, Public health

Herrera takes Turo to court for cheating their competition and SFO

November 5, 2025January 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

Appellate court upholds verdict for pre-1951 homes tainted with lead paint

October 17, 2025November 14, 2017 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
“Once again, the courts have made it clear that paint companies are not going to get away with poisoning children.”

Categories Consumer protection, News, Public health

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

October 17, 2025August 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, News
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