SF News SF City Attorney, Gov. Jerry Brown Vow To Enforce Prop 8 Ruling [Update] While the city, and the LGBT community of the entire state, is going to be no doubt jubilant today at the news that the Supreme Court has knocked the Prop 8 case back
SF News Prop 8 And DOMA Decisions To Come Down Wednesday; Castro, City Hall Events Planned We thought it might be Thursday, but SCOTUS is in fact planning to close up shop a day early for their summer recess, and the final big decisions of the term are to
SF News City Attorney's Office Lays Out Game Plan for Prop 8 Decision Day The Supreme Court is set to make some huge decisions regarding marriage equality in the next few weeks, and San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is preparing for all outcomes. The potential good
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dozens Of Restaurants Settle On Healthy S.F. Surcharge Issue In case you haven't been keeping up, the local restaurant world has been embroiled in a bit of a legal mess over the last year at the hands of City Attorney Dennis Herrera.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Returning The Favor, S.F. City Attorney Files Suit Against Monster Energy Drink Just one week after the makers of Monster Beverage sued San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, the D.A. has struck back. Today, Herrera filed the People of the State of California v.
SF News S.F. Investigating Nevada Hospital For 'Dumping' Mental Patients Prerequisite lede: by differing standards, there are lots of mental cases in S.F. But San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office has opened a formal investigation into allegations that Nevada health officials
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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
SF News 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
SF News Opponents of Central Subway Have New Delay Tactic: Union Square Station Deemed Illegal Another day, another challenge to the Central Subway project, which is literally minutes from getting back underway along the Stockton corridor and up by Union Square. Earlier this week we heard about North
SF News Mirkarimi Wants City To Pay For His Legal Bills You can bet that City Attorney Dennis Herrera laughed when he heard the latest request from embattled Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and his lawyers. Mirkarimi's lawyers (who may or may not be working pro
SF News Landlord Tries to Oust Low-Income Tenants, City Intervenes The owners of 639 Geary Street issued letters last month to 33 low-income tenants informing them that their rents were going to be raised to market rates after more than 20 years of
SF News Mirkarimi Update: Lopez Staying In Venezuela Until June; Cell Phone Records May Not Be Subpoenaed At least for now, a judge has ruled that the cell phone records of Ross Mirkarimi's former campaign manager can not be subpoenaed in the Mayor's Ethics Commission investigation of the suspended sheriff.
SF News Mirkarimi Trying To Get Herrera Off His Case Attorneys for Ross Mirkarimi, who now include local attorney David Waggoner and Shepard Kopp from L.A., filed a petition today to get City Attorney Dennis Herrera disqualified from Mirkarimi's upcoming hearing regarding
SF News Mirkarimi Hires Michael Jackson's Attorney So this is funny/expensive: Embattled Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, whose legal arguments against his suspension are lately getting laughed at by City Attorney Dennis Herrera, has just hired a high-profile L.A. attorney
SF News City Attorney Sues Tenderloin Markets For Drug Sales, Fencing Stolen Goods Two civil lawsuits were filed today on behalf of the City of San Francisco against two Tenderloin businesses that are considered "host businesses" for drug sales and the fencing of stolen property. The
SF News Be Thankful You Don't Live at 245 Leavenworth City Attorney and mayoral candidate Dennis Herrera filed suit last week in Superior Court against landlord John Wai, owner of a 48-unit apartment complex at 245 Leavenworth. According to the public nuisance suit,
Arts & Entertainment Gallery: Scenes from a Mayoral Candidate Car Wash A handful of your favorite candidates for mayor showed up at McKinley Elementary School on this sunny Saturday afternoon to help wash some dirty vehicles, raise money for the school and generally revel
Arts & Entertainment Saturday: Mayoral Candidate Car Wash Jeff Adachi, John Avalos, David Chiu, Bevan Dufty, Dennis Herrera, Joanna Rees, Phil Ting, and Leland Yee will all sport their finest bikinis (or not) during this Saturday's fundraiser car wash for McKinley
SF News Dennis Herrera Catching Up To Ed Lee, Says Recent Poll According to a recent poll by Grove Insight of Portland, Ed Lee is ahead in the mayoral race. Far ahead. But City Attorney Dennis Herrera is gaining on him. A recent SFGate post
SF News Castro's 'Stop the Violence' Campaign: Dennis Herrera Rally? [UPDATED] Slammed by noted activist and blogger Michael Petrelis as "a pathetic Sisters event more interested in being full of Kumbaya feelings and promoting two lame politicians," Saturday's Stop the Violence campaign, sparked by
Arts & Entertainment Upcoming Mayoral Candidate Cameos: Coffee with Yee, Avalos, Ting and Alioto-Pier at Happy Hour John Avalos, Michela Alioto-Pier and Phil Ting: The occasional DJ and the guy with the big Reset Button will be appearing together with lady candidate Michela Alioto-Pier forthe San Francisco Women's Political Committee's
SF News Alex Tourk Resigns from Herrera's Campaign, Probably Botched Some Records on That Stow Lake Deal The Examiner reports that Alex Tourk, campaign consultant and lobbyist-about-town, resigned from Dennis Herrera's campaign for mayor today. In a statement, Tourk said Herrera should be spending more time focusing on his campaign
SF News Mayoral Race Update: Herrera Funding Questioned, Dufty's Top Promise Answered For your wonky pleasure, we have some highs and lows today regarding two mayoral candidates. First, according to Chris Roberts at SF Appeal, City Attorney Dennis Herrera could be in tepid water for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink City Attorney Dennis Herrera Seeks To Ban Kiddie Drink 'Blast by Colt 45' After turning his nose up at trend-piece drink Four Lokko, City Attorney (and mayoral candidate) Dennis Herrera now sets his anti-fruit-flavored-alcohol-seeking laser beams at Pabst Brewing Company’s Blast by Colt 45, a
SF News Supervisor Weiner Endorses Dennis Herrera for Mayor While we're on the subject of mayorship, District 8 Supervisor Scott Weiner officially endorsed City Attorney Dennis Herrera today. "I’ve seen firsthand that Dennis has the leadership style we need in our
