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Cameras from a Dec. 2012 news conference relating to the federal constitutional challenge to Prop 8.

The following are S.F. City Attorney news releases in reverse-chronological order.  For more information, contact the Community and Media Relations Office at +1 (415) 554-4662 or cityattorney@sfcityatty.org.

Herrera Moves to Lift Bicycle Plan Injunction to Protect Public Safety

March 16, 2016August 28, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Completion of environmental review, growing accident rate justify dissolution of 3-year-old stay on bike lane improvements, City argues

Categories News Tags Bicycle Plan

Food Safety Certifications Invalidated for Hundreds of Restaurants

March 16, 2016August 25, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Certification holders will have 60 days to be re-tested, re-certified

Categories News Tags Food Safety

Herrera, Businesses Oppose High Court Review of Key Provision of ‘Healthy San Francisco’

March 14, 2016August 24, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Employer spending requirement not preempted by federal law, argue City; Nibbi Bros. Construction; and Zazie, Medjool Restaurants

Categories Healthy San Francisco Tags Golden Gate Restaurant Association

Herrera Issues Guidance to Board, Mayor Following Disclosure of Legal Advice

March 14, 2016August 20, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Release of confidential memo on Campos Amendment may have endangered City’s litigation position

Categories News Tags Sanctuary Ordinance

San Francisco Allowed to Intervene in Federal Challenge to Proposition 8

July 10, 2015August 19, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney Herrera says his office is well-prepared to help ‘put anti-gay discrimination on trial based on the facts’

Categories News Tags Prop 8

‘Heaven’ Ordered to Close by S.F. Superior Court

March 14, 2016August 19, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Notorious North Beach Strip Club, Alleged Prostitution Venue is Ordered to Immediately Shut Down

Categories News Tags Heaven Mini Theatre

Sup. Daly ‘A Resident of District Six,’ City Attorney Review Concludes

March 14, 2016August 17, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Analysis of Documents, Interviews Corroborate Supervisor’s Assertion That He Remains Legally Domiciled on Stevenson Street in S.F.

Categories Uncategorized Tags Chris Daly, Sarah Low Daly

Herrera Praises BofA Decision to Drop Credit Card Arbitration Mandate

July 10, 2015August 13, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney’s ongoing litigation against anti-consumer ‘arbitration mills’ includes a Bank of America Subsidiary

Categories News Tags Bank of America, FIA Card Services, National Arbitration Forum

Herrera, Mirant Reach Accord to Close Potrero Power Plant in 2010

March 14, 2016August 13, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Energy Giant Also Agrees to Pay $1 Million to City for Pediatric Asthma Program, Neighborhood Improvements

Categories News Tags Mirant, Potrero Power Plant

San Francisco Moves to Intervene in Federal Challenge to Proposition 8

March 14, 2016July 23, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney Herrera says his office is ‘singularly well-prepared’ to help ‘put anti-gay discrimination on trial based on the facts’

Categories Marriage Equality Tags Marriage Equality, Prop 8

Herrera Moves to Close Down ‘Heaven’

March 10, 2016July 22, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Lawless North Beach Strip Club and Prostitution Venue Has Repeatedly Defied Notices of Violation, Cease and Desist Orders

Categories News

Herrera Files Amicus Brief in Support of Federal Challenge to Proposition 8

July 10, 2015June 18, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City argues that California’s Prop 8 was based on moral disapproval of gays and lesbians, similar to Colorado amendment that U.S. Supreme Court struck down in 1996

Categories News

Herrera Takes on Walgreens in California Court of Appeal over Tobacco Sales Ban

July 10, 2015June 10, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Groundbreaking law is ‘rationally related to a legitimate governmental purpose’ in discouraging leading cause of preventable death, brief argues

Categories News

Herrera praises President’s choice of Sotomayor for U.S. Supreme Court

July 10, 2015May 26, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
President Obama makes ‘a first-rate choice that honors the legal profession and affirms the Latino community’s place in America’

Categories News

Herrera Hails Federal Protections for Credit Cardholders, But Warns of More Problems

July 10, 2015May 22, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Law to limit rates and fees an ‘important step’ — but abuses by credit card companies’ ‘arbitration mills’ still under challenge by City

Categories News

Herrera, SFUSD Sue State for Refusing to Reimburse Health Care for School Kids

July 10, 2015May 21, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Defiant state bureaucracy continues to stiff local schools for health care costs for children covered by Medi-Cal, lawsuit alleges

Categories News

Herrera Hails Passage of Bills to End Health Insurance ‘Gender Rating’

July 10, 2015May 14, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Both City Litigation and State Legislation Target Discriminatory Pricing Scheme That Costs Women More for Health Coverage

Categories News Tags Gender Rating

Herrera, tenant groups sue U.S. Postal Service over mail delivery to SRO residents

July 10, 2015May 5, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
New USPS policy halts secure mail service to individual tenants, inflicts devastating hardships on many low-income San Franciscans

Categories News Tags SRO Hotels, U.S. Postal Service

Herrera blasts Mirant’s ‘deplorable corporate citizenship’ with seismic safety lawsuit

March 10, 2016April 27, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Code violations at controversial Potrero plant mark the latest in list of threats to public health, safety and the environment

Categories News Tags Potrero Power Plant

Herrera Sues Defiant Landlord for Breaching Contract After Evicting Disabled Tenant

July 10, 2015April 20, 2009 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City funding of $38,165 for lead abatement required landlord to continue to rent unit to low- or moderate-income tenants

Categories News Tags Hazard Reduction, lead abatement, Mark O’Flynn
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