Litigation & Arbitration
Jun. 22, 2023
San Francisco wins $1,631 sanction for delayed discovery
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu argued that Dow W. Patten of Forthright Law PC had failed to comply with a March 9 order and has been holding up the litigation.
A San Francisco pro tem judge ordered Forthright Law PC to pay $1,631 in sanctions to the City and County of San Francisco Wednesday stemming from a discovery dispute in a civil rights lawsuit alleging racial discrimination by city employees.
The plaintiff alleged that immediately after he was hired by the San Francisco Water Department by then mayor and current Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2006, he was subjected to racial epithets in the workplace and, "one of plaintiff's co-work...
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