Monette-Shaw v. San Francisco Board of Supervisors

Opinion

BUSCH, J.

Introduction

This is an appeal from the trial court’s denial of a petition for writ of mandate seeking to prevent the City and County of San Francisco (City) from diverting tobacco settlement revenues away from the project to replace Laguna Honda Hospital and to require the City to maintain Laguna Honda as a 1,200-bed skilled nursing facility. We affirm.

Factual Background and Procedural History

Laguna Honda Hospital, founded in 1866, has long been a fixture in the City, providing continuing care services to the City’s elderly and chronically disabled population without regard to…