Schaffer v. City and County of San Francisco

In Schaffer v. City and County of San Francisco (2008) 168 Cal.App.4th 992, the plaintiff brought suit against the police officers who arrested her, among others. (Id. at p. 996.) The claims asserted, however, were not based on the execution of the arrest warrant by the officers, but rather a memorandum to the district attorney allegedly prepared by one officer, urging that the plaintiff be prosecuted, and two affidavits by another officer, submitted in support of a complaint filed by the district attorney. (Id. at p. 996.) The Schaffer court found that these documents constituted written statements made in connection with an issue under consideration by the district attorney (whether to bring charges against the plaintiff), and entitled on that basis to protection under the anti-SLAPP statute. (Schaffer, supra, at pp. 1004-1005.)