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Public health

City Attorney secures $1 million settlement from online tobacco retailer

January 8, 2026 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Agreement holds online tobacco seller accountable for selling banned flavored nicotine pouches, like Zyns, in San Francisco

Categories News, Public health

City Attorney shuts down brothel fronting as a massage parlor

January 7, 2026January 6, 2026 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Agreement pays the City $275,000 and shutters unpermitted massage parlor with various health and safety issues

Categories News, Public health, Public safety

San Francisco City Attorney Chiu sues largest manufacturers of ultra-processed foods

December 2, 2025December 2, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Food conglomerates flooded the country with addictive ultra-processed foods with little nutritional value, knowing they would make Americans sick

Categories Consumer protection, News, Public health

City Attorney secures $5 million settlement for Fisherman’s Wharf oil leak

November 19, 2025November 19, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Agreement requires petroleum companies to reimburse the City for the cost to clean up the oil leak and remediate remaining issues

Categories News, Public health

City Attorney secures nearly $3 million settlement from online tobacco retailers

October 24, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Agreement holds online retailers accountable for violating local flavored tobacco bans by selling flavored nicotine pouches including the popular ZYN brand

Categories News, Public health

City Attorney secures $250,000 judgment against smoke shop owners flouting flavored tobacco laws

April 21, 2025March 5, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Large-scale decoy operation revealed owners illegally sold flavored tobacco at nearly a dozen smoke shops across the Bay Area

Categories News, Public health

City Attorney secures settlement against online tobacco retailers that violated flavored tobacco and e-cigarette bans

January 28, 2025January 7, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Court order holds online tobacco retailers accountable for violating city laws that protect youth from harmful tobacco products

Categories News, Public health

City Attorney sues online tobacco retailers for violating local flavored tobacco ban

October 3, 2025September 4, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Lawsuit alleges online retailers violated city law intended to protect youth from harmful tobacco use by selling flavored nicotine pouches like “Zyns”

Categories News, Public health

City Attorney sues online tobacco retailers for violating local flavored tobacco and e-cigarette bans

January 28, 2025December 5, 2023 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Lawsuit alleges online retailers violated city laws intended to protect youth from harmful tobacco use

Categories News, Public health

City Attorney statement on SCOTUS decision to eliminate right to abortion

October 17, 2025June 24, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Ruling goes against nearly 50 years of precedent

Categories News, Public health

San Francisco officials praise anticipated FDA decision to ban Juul e-cigarettes

January 9, 2024June 22, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Decision follows San Francisco’s actions in safeguarding public health against the harms of e-cigarettes

Categories News, Public health

Legal Community Launches Initiative to Defend Abortion Rights

October 17, 2025June 1, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
As the U.S. Supreme Court looks poised to strike down Roe v. Wade, Bay Area attorneys band together to provide legal assistance to those seeking abortions

Categories News, Public health

City Attorney Chiu statement on federal court ruling upholding SFO health care law

October 17, 2025April 6, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Decision protects the safety, security, and continuity of operations of SFO by ensuring airport workers’ access to high quality health care

Categories News, Public health

Herrera statement on FDA orders for e-cigarettes

September 10, 2021 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
“Now it’s time for the FDA to finish the job and apply the same public health standard to Juul, which is Big Tobacco’s stalking horse and has targeted children.”

Categories News, Public health

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

October 17, 2025March 25, 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 News, Public health

San Francisco successfully blocks discriminatory health care rule

October 17, 2025November 19, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Court blocks so-called ‘conscience rule’ that would have denied critical medical care to patients.

Categories News, Public health

Herrera statement on voters rejecting Juul’s ballot measure

October 17, 2025November 6, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
San Francisco voters are too smart to be fooled by Juul.

Categories News, Public health Tags E-cigarettes, epidemic, Juul, public health, vaping

Herrera statement after hearing to invalidate discriminatory health care rule

October 17, 2025October 30, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
So-called ‘conscience rule’ has been on hold; SF and coalition partners are now asking the federal courts to invalidate it

Categories News, Public health

Herrera takes on tour bus company that cheated workers out of health care

October 17, 2025October 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 News, Public health

Herrera files for court order invalidating discriminatory health care rule

October 17, 2025September 12, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
So-called ‘conscience rule’ has been on hold; SF and coalition partners are now asking the federal courts to invalidate it

Categories News, Public health
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