Nesbit

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND2

I. The Complaint

In August 2023, Nesbit sued Walgreen Co. (Walgreen) for alleged violations of the Unruh Civil Rights Act (Civ. Code, § 51 et seq.) (Unruh Act) and the relevant municipal equivalent (L.A. Mun. Code, § 51.03).3 Nesbit alleged that he was discriminated against by a cashier on the basis of his race, and, when he tried to reenter the store, was battered and/or assaulted by a third-party contractor working as a security guard (security guard).

II. Walgreen’s Motion to Declare Nesbit a Vexatious Litigant

On March 6, 2024, Walgreen filed a motion to declare Nesbit a vexatious litigant. The motion identified 17 lawsuits filed by Nesbit, in propria persona, between 2018 and 2023. Walgreen argued that these lawsuits qualified Nesbit as a vexatious litigant because at least nine of them had been “adversely determined against him[.]” And in many of these

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