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Class Action

Nov. 21, 2024

SF judge declines to reconsider elder abuse class certification

City Attorney David Chiu had claimed that the decision to appoint a guardian to represent one of the lead plaintiffs made both lead plaintiffs unfit to litigate the case.

A San Francisco judge has declined to reconsider his previous grant of class certification to a group of more than 700 current and former patients from Laguna Honda Hospital suing the City and County of San Francisco for alleged elder abuse that they claim to have suffered at the facility.

The case stems from a 2019 report that hospital staffers improperly disseminated the private medical information of one of the lead plaintiffs and took and disseminated inappropriate photos of ...

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