Tisdale

Plaintiff Reginald Jerome Tisdale has sued Defendants City of Los Angeles, Greyhound Lines, Inc. (“Greyhound”), and ten Does (including five Los Angeles Police Department (“LAPD”) officers and five Greyhound security guards) for alleged injuries arising from his arrest at a Los Angeles Greyhound bus station and his subsequent detention in a City jail. Greyhound has moved to strike three of the six claims against it, arguing that the claims arise from its privileged reports to law enforcement personnel and are precluded by California’s anti-SLAPP statute and the federal Noerr-Pennington doctrine. The Court DENIES the motion because the claims are based upon a citizen’s arrest of Plaintiff, not on any privileged communications with the LAPD officers. Citizen’s arrests are not privileged under the anti-SLAPP statute or the Noerr-Pennington doctrine.

I. PLAINTIFF’S ALLEGATIONS

Tisdale alleges that on or about Monday, January 8, 2007, he politely but repeatedly asked employees at the Los Angeles Greyhound bus station for assistance in changing his connecting bus destined for a consumer electronics convention. In response, a security guard employed or contracted by Greyhound allegedly…