[Navy Patriot]

The Examiner represents that a tort was filed, and San Francisco city employees named in said tort have used the term "plaintiffs" on the record when speaking about said tort.

In your favor is the fact that the Examiner is a far left loon rag, claimed to be more accurate than the Bay Guardian,....claimed.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

One of the comments under the article may furnish a clue: It may well be that violations of ADA (which is a Federal Law) must occur in a Federal court. So if the ticketee is claiming that the city is not honoring the exemption conveyed by the Handicapped placard, perhaps they are forced to go Federal.

[roadcat]

In your favor is the fact that the Examiner is a far left loon rag, claimed to be more accurate than the Bay Guardian,....claimed.

I don't know about that at this time. In the past, the Examiner was far left. Then they got bought by a Chinese-American family, and the reporting turned more conservative (or moderate). The Chronicle (that sold off the Examiner) remains very far left. Many Chinese-Americans in SF are moderate or conservative. It then got sold to a Colorado outfit. As for who owns it now, I don't know, it changed hands in the last few years, and may have gone left again (I don't read it).