Alioto's Fish Co. v. Human Rights Commission of San Francisco

Opinion

SMITH, J.

Respondents, a group of 14 Fisherman’s Wharf restaurants (hereinafter the Restaurants), instituted this action for writ of mandate and declaratory and injunctive relief against appellants San Francisco Human Rights Commission (hereinafter HRC), San Francisco Port Commission (hereinafter the Port Commission) and their respective commissioners, directors and employees (collectively, the City). The Restaurants sought, inter alia, 1) a peremptory writ ordering the HRC to refrain from enforcing a provision contained in their leases of land from the Port Commission which expressly…