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Litigation Expenses

A spending category in the City’s payment ledger

In FY2019, San Francisco paid $6.4M for litigation expenses to 256 payees across 8 departments, 0.1% of the year's payments. Source: SF Controller vendor payments (open data).

UnclassifiedCode 553210

Not confidently classified; shown folded, never as fact.

$6.4M
paid in FY2019 · 0.1% of the City’s payments that year

Who was paid in FY2019

256 payees, 8 departments.

IDEAL RESTORATION INCPUC Public Utilities Commsn$612,426
JEFFERIES LLCCAT City Attorney$500,000
ALAMEDA COUNTY SHF'S OFC REGNL TRNG CTRPOL Police$234,309
WESTCOAST LEGAL SERVICECAT City Attorney$217,944
Applied River SciencesPUC Public Utilities Commsn$213,430
US LEGAL SUPPORT INCCAT City Attorney$201,028

270 more not shown.

Spent by year

From FY2018, when the City renumbered its chart of accounts.

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Tallest bar — FY2026: $13.6M. Bars are scaled to this category’s own peak year.

Departments in those payments

8 in all; these are the ones above.