Ten California jurisdictions receive massive award in victory over three manufacters of lead-based paint, verdict breaks new legal ground and spurs remediation efforts
The City Attorney’s Office of San Francisco speaks on behalf of the Nevada patient dumping lawsuit, filed against the state of Nevada for allegedly busing psychiatric patients from Las Vegas to San Francisco. Featuring interviews with City Attorney Dennis Herrera, Deputy City Attorney Kristine Poplawski, lead investigator David Burke, and Executive Director of Mental Health Association of SF, Eduardo Vega.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a class action against the State of Nevada on behalf of California local governments to which indigent psychiatric patients were improperly bused from the state-run Rawson-Neal Hospital in Las Vegas.
City Attorney follows through on litigation threat to seek statewide injunction, restitution for S.F.’s costs for care of improperly bused non-residents
Silver State can avoid litigation, according to demand letter, with commitment to reimburse California localities for costs, adopt strict mental health protocols
Hearings echo S.F. City Attorney’s cause of action in California consumer protection suit against industry leader, Monster Energy, for targeting kids as young as six
Ten California cities and counties seek to hold accountable the companies that marketed, promoted, and profited from lead paint despite knowing it was toxic to children
S.F. City Attorney blasts Monster’s ‘frivolous’ attempt to ‘avoid accountability for recklessly targeting children’ in marketing drinks known to pose health risks
‘Significant morbidity in adolescents’ — including severe cardiac events, brain seizures — risked by highly-caffeinated drinks, according to pediatricians, scientists
Federal regulators’ announcement comes days after Monster Energy sued to halt Herrera’s investigation into marketing of potentially unsafe products to children
S.F. health and homeless services providers invited to assist in gathering evidence from others victimized by practice, which bused 1,500 patients out of Nevada in five years
City Attorney calls letters an ‘important step we can take at the national level,’ while City’s investigation of Monster Energy Drinks’ business practices continues
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is engaged in litigation against Monster Beverage Corporation for violating California law with its marketing of highly-caffeinated energy drinks to children as young as six-years-old, despite scientific findings that such products may cause “significant morbidity in adolescents” from elevated blood pressure, brain seizures, and severe cardiac events.
