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Litigation

Sep. 14, 2013

Suit challenges renaming of Bay Bridge for Willie Brown

State policymakers are unfairly gaming the system so they can rename a portion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after one of San Francisco's former mayors, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.

By Saul Sugarman
Daily Journal Staff Writer

State policymakers are unfairly gaming the system so they can rename a portion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after one of San Francisco's former mayors, according to a San Francisco County Superior Court lawsuit filed Thursday. San Francisco resident Bob Planthold accuses state legislators and others of skirting laws on naming monuments and trying to fast-track proposed legislation that would rename the western span of th...

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