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FILTER RESULTS ►Dozens Of Restaurants Settle On Healthy S.F. Surcharge Issue
Most of the biggest offenders among those called out earlier this year by City Attorney Dennis Herrera for the misuse of funds collected for healthcare costs have reached settlements totaling over $800,000 ? all of which is getting paid out to current and former employees. [ more › ]
More SF restaurants settle with the city over fraudulent employee health surcharges
Restaurants invented this surcharge but often leave the impression that the city requires it or that they're being generous.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera today announced another batch of settlements with restaurants that have been fraudulently...Show More Summary
City Sues Monster Over Marketing Aimed at Children
San Francisco is the latest city to take issue with Monster.
In a lawsuit filed against the company Monday, City Attorney Dennis Herrera said Monster Beverage is the "worst offender" of all the energy drinks that target children in their...Show More Summary
Returning The Favor, S.F. City Attorney Files Suit Against Monster Energy Drink
Today, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a lawsuit challenging the "unfair, deceptive, and unlawful business practices" of Monster Energy Drink. [ more › ]
S.F. city attorney, Monster in legal fight over energy drinks
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is lashing back at Monster Beverage Corp. with his own lawsuit a week after being sued by the Corona energy drink maker.
Monster Energy Drinks Sues San Francisco
San Francisco's city attorney wants Monster Beverage to cut down on both the caffeine in its energy drinks and the marketing of them, and the company is fighting back in federal court. Monster sued the office of Dennis Herrera this week, arguing that its drinks are no more harmful than...
Monster Energy Drink Is Suing S.F. for Being Totally Lame
Monster Beverage, the makers of the caffeine-laden energy drink that someone, somewhere, still buys, are suing San Francisco city attorney Dennis Herrera for hounding them in his bid to address safety issues around the product. [ more › ]
Somethings Don’t Stay In Vegas . . . Like Mentally Ill People
It appears that some things or some people don’t stay in Vegas. San Francisco’s City Attorney Dennis Herrera is investigating accounts of an illegally busing hundreds of psychiatric patients to California and other states with one-way bus tickets and no food or medication. This “patient dumping” involves the Rawson Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas. [...]
UP2CODE App Encourages SF Citizens To Report City Code Violations
In a move to encourage community involvement, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has introduced a new mobile app that lets citizens report non-emergency code enforcements.
Citizens can use the UP2CODE app, which is availableShow More Summary
National Media Salutes SF City Attorney's Office
A front page story in the March 19 New York Times (?Ban on Gay Marriage Led Lawyers to Shift Role?) confirms what many San Franciscans already knew: City Attorney Dennis Herrera and his staff are perhaps the nation?s leading legal organization for achieving progressive change. Show More Summary
No Mail, No Phone, No Solutions!
The Post Office?s decision to stop delivering to individual mailboxes in San Francisco SRO?s ---which City Attorney Dennis Herrera challenged in a lawsuit that is now on appeal---is now causing additional problems for the city?s poor: an inability to qualify for lifeline phone service. Show More Summary
SF aims for the history books, filing its same-sex marriage brief with the Supremes
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera and his legal team today submitted written arguments to the US Supreme Court in the landmark same-sex marriage equality case it will consider this spring, with the hopes that their phrases and...Show More Summary
Herrera steps up his crackdown on surcharge fraud by restaurants
City Attorney Dennis Herrera.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera has stepped up his efforts to ensure San Francisco restaurants aren't committing consumer fraud with their healthcare surcharges – by pocketing money collected from diners ostensibly...Show More Summary
Herrera takes on restaurants that use bogus healthcare surcharges
In reality, some restaurants offer employees substandard health coverage and pocket surcharges customers pay.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera fired a warning shot across the bow of San Francisco restaurants that use a customer surcharge...Show More Summary
U.S. Supreme Court Sets Prop 8 Date: March 26 – DOMA Challenge Too – Back-to-Back Showdown Over LGBT Civil Rights
TweetWell here’s the big news, direct from the Office of San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera: “U.S. Supreme Court sets Prop 8 oral argument date for March 26 DOMA challenge scheduled for the next day, setting the stage for back-to-back showdown over LGBT civil rights SAN FRANCISCO (Jan. 7, 2013) — The U.S. Supreme Court [...]
Herrera and other officials disappointed but hopeful as Supreme Court takes marriage equality case
Attorney General Kamala Harris, City Attorney Dennis Herrera, and others at today's press conference. Mike Koozmin/SF Newspaper Co.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera, Deputy City Attorney Theresa Stewart, California Attorney General Kamala...Show More Summary
San Francisco Up In Arms Over Monster Energy Drinks
The City Attorney office's most pressing issue this week is Monster Energy drinks. Of course. (If Dennis Herrera gets bored, SFist would gladly hand him a list of SF ordinance violators he could be suing!) On Wednesday, Herrera sentShow More Summary
Herrera's 245 Leavenworth St. settlement helps tenants, denies base to 'Cambodian Crips' Gang
Owner agrees to pay $135K in civil penalties and sell building after litigation results from serious code violations, security issues SAN FRANCISCO (Oct. 2, 2012) -- City Attorney Dennis Herrera today announced a settlement agreement...Show More Summary
Watch San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s Adorable ‘Call Me Maybe’ Parody
"When San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s office wrangled a settlement agreement in a 2007 lawsuit for customers who might have been scammed through short-term payday loans at Money Mart and Loan Mart locations, that was only half the battle. Customers who took out loans between 2005 and 2007 could
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City Attorney Dennis Herrera Makes 'Call Me Maybe' Parody Video to Pimp Money Mart Class Action
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has reached a settlement with payday loan giant Money Mart to repay California consumers $7.5 million in money bilked from cash advances and such. This has been one of his pet projects, andShow More Summary
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