Golden Gate Restaurant Association v. City & County of San Francisco

December 26, 2007 Golden Gate Restaurant Association, a group established to promote, extend and protect the general interests of the restaurant industry, brought suit on November 8, 2006, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief on the theory that a law passed by the City of San Francisco included a spending requirement is preempted by the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) law that forbids state and local government regulation of employee benefits. The law sought to ensure that all adult residents have health insurance. On January 1, 2008, the law would have affected employers with 50 or more employees; on . . .