Gun Advocates’ ‘Factually Slipshod’ Legal Challenge Improperly Names S.F., Asserts Facts Contradicted By Their Own Exhibits City Attorney Dennis Herrera today vowed to seek sanctions in Federal Court for a “factually slipshod” and frivolous lawsuit filed Friday by the National Rifle Association and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms challenging a San Francisco ordinance that prohibits possession of firearms on such City-controlled property such as parks, hospitals, stadiums, and recreation centers. Within hours of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last Thursday that invalidated a District of Columbia handgun ban for violating the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, gun advocates threatened new litigation against the cities San Francisco and Chicago in published news accounts nationwide. This rush to sue, Herrera said, resulted in a case against San Francisco and the San Francisco Housing Authority amounting to little more than a publicity stunt that improperly names the City as a defendant, and makes false representations to the Court. Such frivolous and baseless allegations may give rise to monetary sanctions that the Federal Court may impose under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. “In their apparent effort to maximize publicity for their pending challenges, the NRA lawyers’ hastily drafted complaint made glaring legal errors, and asserted facts that are not simply unsupported — but actually contradicted ...
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Gun Advocates’ ‘Factually Slipshod’ Legal Challenge Improperly Names S.F., Asserts Facts Contradicted By Their Own Exhibits City Attorney Dennis Herrera today vowed to seek sanctions in Federal Court for a “factually slipshod” and frivolous lawsuit filed Friday by the National Rifle Association and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms challenging a San Francisco ordinance that prohibits possession of firearms on such City-controlled property such as parks, hospitals, stadiums, and recreation centers. Within hours of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last Thursday that invalidated a District of Columbia handgun ban for violating the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, gun advocates threatened new litigation against the cities San Francisco and Chicago in published news accounts nationwide. This rush to sue, Herrera said, resulted in a case against San Francisco and the San Francisco Housing Authority amounting to little more than a publicity stunt that improperly names the City as a defendant, and makes false representations to the Court. Such frivolous and baseless allegations may give rise to monetary sanctions that the Federal Court may impose under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. “In their apparent effort to maximize publicity for their pending challenges, the NRA lawyers’ hastily drafted complaint made glaring legal errors, and asserted facts that are not simply unsupported — but actually contradicted ...