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Camara v. Municipal Court, 387 U.S. 523 (1967), is a United States Supreme Court case that overruled a previous case ( Frank v. Maryland, 1959) [1] and established the ability of a resident to deny entry to a building inspector without a warrant.
Died. April 6, 1991. San Francisco, California, U.S. Known for. Class-action lawsuit against the St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco. Eleanor Riese (1943–1991) was an American patient who sued a hospital for her right to refuse antipsychotic medication. [1] The court decision significantly changed the approach to psychiatric patients.
e. In the United States, rent control refers to laws or ordinances that set price controls on the rent of residential housing to function as a price ceiling. [1] More loosely, "rent control" describes several types of price control: "strict price ceilings", also known as " rent freeze " systems, or " absolute " or " first generation " rent ...
The San Francisco Public Defender's Office is an agency of the Government of San Francisco. Since 1921, it has provided legal assistance to indigent individuals charged with violations of California state law by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. Courts within its jurisdiction include the San Francisco Superior Court, the California ...
Civic Center Plaza, also known as Joseph Alioto Piazza, is the 4.53-acre (1.83 ha) plaza immediately east of San Francisco City Hall in Civic Center, San Francisco, in the U.S. state of California. [1] [2] Civic Center Plaza occupies two blocks bounded by McAllister, Larkin, Grove, and Carlton B. Goodlett (the section of Polk between City Hall ...
The San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department is the city agency responsible for governing and maintaining all city-owned parks and recreational facilities in San Francisco, as well as Sharp Park Golf Course in Pacifica and Camp Mather in Tuolumne County. Current facilities include 4,113 acres (1,664 ha) of total recreational and open space ...
Castro District, San Francisco. / 37.76083°N 122.43500°W / 37.76083; -122.43500. The Castro District, commonly referred to as the Castro, is a neighborhood in Eureka Valley in San Francisco. The Castro was one of the first gay neighborhoods in the United States. [3] [4] Having transformed from a working-class neighborhood through the ...
415/628. Bayview–Hunters Point (sometimes spelled Bay View or Bayview) is the San Francisco, California, neighborhood combining the Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods in the southeastern corner of the city. The decommissioned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is located within its boundaries and Candlestick Park, which was demolished in 2015 ...