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Defending Public Funds

Herrera statement on 2020 census victory

July 2, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
‘The census is supposed to count everyone in the country. Period. It is about facts, not partisanship.’

Categories Defending Public Funds, Defending Voters' Will, Major Case, News, Sanctuary Cities

Herrera statement on Supreme Court ruling in census case

June 27, 2019June 27, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
‘Under the Constitution, the census is supposed to count everyone in the country. It is about facts, not partisanship.’

Categories Defending Public Funds, News, Sanctuary Cities Tags census, U.S. Supreme Court

Herrera roots out contract fraud at Department of Public Health

November 27, 2018November 27, 2018 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
DPH employee steered $1.2 million cybersecurity contract to her husband’s company, a conflict of interest from which the couple stood to gain financially

Categories Defending Public Funds, News, Public Integrity

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

Veteran prosecutor Keslie Stewart joins San Francisco City Attorney’s Office

November 13, 2017September 14, 2017 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Former head of U.S. Attorney’s Oakland branch will lead City Attorney’s Public Integrity Unit, a critical role that fights waste, fraud and abuse of the public trust

Categories Defending Public Funds, News, Public Integrity

Herrera statement on USDOJ sanctuary cities guidance memo

February 5, 2018May 22, 2017 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

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, 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 27, 2016May 26, 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

‘Extremely litigious’ AHF misses deadline in latest meritless lawsuit

April 29, 2016 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."
In its second lawsuit over a proposed formula retail pharmacy on Castro Street, AHF is ‘mistaken that the U.S. Constitution allows it to put chain stores wherever it wants’

Categories Defending Public Funds, Land Use, Neighborhood Protection, News

San Francisco’s federal suit to halt PG&E’s ‘$600 million shakedown’ heads to trial

April 18, 2016April 18, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
San Francisco's publicly-owned power enterprise was created by the federal Raker Act of 1913.
Investor-owned utility’s new demands on taxpayers to continue serving municipal electricity customers are unfair, anti-competitive, ‘illegal under federal law’

Categories Defending Public Funds, News

Asiana accord closes tragic chapter, reiterates ‘extraordinary heroism’ of firefighters, police

April 13, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Proposed $3.45 million settlement will resolve all claims on behalf of San Francisco taxpayers involving the tragic July 2013 crash Asiana Airlines caused at SFO

Categories Defending Public Funds, News, Public Safety, Unsung Heroes

Court grants Herrera’s motion for injunction against prolific graffiti vandal

October 8, 2015September 30, 2015 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Terry Cozy's eponymous "Coze" tag caused thousands of dollars of public property damage in San Francisco.
San Francisco Superior Court approves preliminary injunction to stop vandal who caused more than $88,000 in public property damage

Categories Defending Public Funds, Graffiti, News

Herrera wants graffiti vandal halted in costly lawless spree

September 30, 2015August 21, 2015 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney Herrera, with SFPD Chief Greg Suhr. San Francisco Police played a key role in helping Herrera bring suit against a prolific graffiti vandal.
S.F. Superior Court today sets hearing on Herrera’s motion for preliminary injunction to stop vandalism that has so far caused at least $88,000 in public property damage

Categories Defending Public Funds, Graffiti, News

Herrera grateful to ABAG for fully restoring $1.3 million to SOMA Improvement Fund

March 24, 2016February 3, 2015 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney Dennis Herrera
Unanimous decision follows demand from Controller and City Attorney last week, will enable SOMA committee to continue making neighborhood improvements

Categories Defending Public Funds, News Tags SOMA

Independent public counsel denies disgruntled former deputy’s bid for monetary damages

July 23, 2015July 17, 2014 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Following outside counsel’s review of claim and related files, Santa Clara County Counsel rejects aspects of claim, finds other allegations time-barred by state law 

Categories Defending Public Funds, News

Herrera sues Blue Cross, Health Net for underpaying SFGH for emergency services

October 22, 2015May 25, 2011 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Medical insurers ‘shortchanging public hospitals, and sticking taxpayers with the bill,’ according to City Attorney’s lawsuit

Categories Defending Public Funds, News Tags Blue Cross of California, San Francisco General Hospital
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