COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS v. CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO

No. 23-15087.

90 F.4th 975 (2024)

COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS; Toro Castano; Sarah Cronk; Joshua Donohoe; Molique Frank; David Martinez; Teresa Sandoval; Nathaniel Vaughn, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; San Francisco Police Department; San Francisco Department of Public Works; San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing; San Francisco Fire Department; San Francisco Department of Emergency Management; London Breed, in her Official Capacity as Mayor; Sam Dodge, in his Official Capacity as Director of the Healthy Streets Operation Center (HSOC), Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 11, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne K. Snodgrass (argued) and Kaitlyn M. Murphy , Deputy Attorneys, San Francisco City Attorney's Office, San Francisco, California; James M. Emery , Edmund T. Wang , Ryan C. Stevens , and Miguel A. Gradilla , Deputy City Attorneys; Yvonne R. Meré , Chief Deputy City Attorney; David Chiu , City Attorney, San Francisco City Attorney's Office, San Francisco, California; for Defendants-Appellants.

Joseph H. Lee (argued), Latham & Watkins LLP, Costa Mesa, California; Alfred C. Pfeiffer Jr. , Latham & Watkins LLP, San Francisco, California; John Thomas H. Do , ACLU Foundation of Northern California, San Francisco, California; Elisa Della-Piana , Hadley Rood , and Zal K. Shroff , Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights, San Francisco, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Alexander C. Werner, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, San Francisco, California, for Amici Curiae Healthcare Providers, Doctors Sharad Jain, Harrison Alter, Nicholas Iverson, Hemal Kanzaria, Elaine Khoong, Margot Kushel, John Landefeld, Katherine Lupton, Lisa Ochoa-Frongia, Naomi Schoenfeld, Sara Teasdale, and Melody Tran-Reina.

Deborah E. Arbabi, Crowell & Moring LLP, Irvine, California, for Amici Curiae National Homelessness Law Center, National Low Income Housing Coalition, National Coalition for the Homeless, and National Alliance to End Homelessness.

Ruth M. Bond, Atkinson Andelson Loya Ruud & Romo, Sausalito, California, for Amici Curiae California Association of Counties, International Municipal Lawyers Association, and League of California Cities.

Shanin Specter, Kline & Specter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Amici Curiae College of the Law, San Francisco.

Marissa A. Roy, O'Melveny & Meyers LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amici Curiae Current and Former Local Elected Officials and Local Progress Impact Lab.

Y. Monica Chan, Fenwick & West LLP, Seattle, Washington; Shayla R. Myers, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; for Amici Curiae Disability Rights Advocates.

Eliana Machefsky, National Police Accountability Project, New Orleans, Louisiana, for Amici Curiae Law Enforcement Action Partnership and National Police Accountability Project.

Opinion by Judge Koh; Dissent by Judge Bumatay.


OPINION

Appellant City and County of San Francisco ("the City") appeals the grant of a preliminary injunction in this action brought by the Coalition on Homelessness and seven current or formerly homeless residents of San Francisco ("Plaintiffs"). We publish this opinion to...

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