PLUMLEIGH

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS AND GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ SPECIAL MOTION TO STRIKE

INTRODUCTION

Plaintiffs Robert Plumleigh and Thomas R. Hazard III brought this putative class action against Defendants City of Santa Ana, Chief of Police Paul M. Walters, City Attorney Joseph W. Fletcher (collectively “the City Defendants”) and Defendants Redflex Traffic Systems (California), Inc. and Redflex Traffic Systems, Inc. (collectively “the Redflex Defendants”) for constitutional and state law violations arising from the implementation of an automated traffic enforcement system in the city of Santa Ana, California. Specifically, Plaintiffs allege that the City Defendants and the Redflex Defendants violated a California statute that requires “local jurisdictions” that implement automated traffic enforcement systems to only issue warning notices, not citations, for thirty days. Plaintiffs allege that they received non-warning traffic citations from automated traffic cameras that did not first issue warnings for the thirty-day period. (First Am. Compl. ¶¶ 49-54.) Plaintiffs allege two causes of action against the Redflex Defendants for “unjust enrichment” and viola tions of…