The Golden Gate National Recreation Area is again embroiled in litigation with dog owners. 

Last Thursday, four groups—Save Our Recreation, the San Francisco Dog Owners Group, the Marin County Dog Owners Group and the Coastside Dog Owners Group—filed two lawsuits over rules released in August that they say place significant limitations on dog walking. 

The same groups first sued the recreation area in 2016 over then-proposed changes to dog rules; one year after that litigation,…