San Francisco Patrol Special Police Officers v. City of San Francisco

MEMORANDUM **

Appellants San Francisco Patrol Special Police Officers and various individual members of this organization (together, the “Patrol Specials”), brought suit in federal district court against the San Francisco Police Commission (the “Commission”), the City and County of San Francisco, the San Francisco Police and Sheriffs Departments, unions representing the Police and Sheriffs Departments (the “Union Defendants”), and a number of individual members of these entities. The Patrol Specials allege that the Commission’s rules regulating the Patrol Specials’ activities violate federal antitrust law and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 . The district court dismissed the Patrol *672 Specials’ claims under Rule 12(b)(6), and we affirm.

I.

The Patrol Specials are a public/private security force sanctioned by the San Francisco City Charter. They are not city employees, but sell their services directly to businesses and individuals in San Francisco. The Commission defines a patrol special police officer as a “private patrol-person, who contracts to perform security duties of a private nature for private persons and businesses within the geographic boundaries set forth by the Police…