Jones v. Dover Downs

• Court: District Court, District of Columbia
• Decided: April 14, 2026
• Docket: Civil Action No. 2025-4450
• Status: Published

Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

MATTHEW JONES, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. 25-04450 (UNA) ) ) DOVER DOWNS, ) ) Defendant. )

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Plaintiff, appearing pro se, has filed a complaint and an application to proceed in forma

pauperis (IFP). For the following reasons, the Court grants the IFP application and dismisses the

complaint.

Plaintiff, a resident of Greenwood, Delaware, sues Dover Downs in Dover, Delaware.

He alleges that the “business of Dover Downs created me, planned to create me, in unquestionably

unhealthiest living circumstances-without any way to avoid rape, death, constant duress, H

diseases, Black Plague, Scarlet Fever, poaching, mental illness, sequestering, constant taunting,

slavery and without sex.” Compl., ECF No. 1 at 4 (Statement of Claim). Plaintiff seeks “amounts

exceeding nine hundred ninety nine trillion” dollars. Id.

Complaints, as here, lacking “an arguable basis either in law or in fact,” Neitzke v. Williams,

490 U.S. 319, 325 (1989), and “postulating events and circumstances of a wholly fanciful kind,”

Crisafi v. Holland, 655 F.2d 1305, 1307-08 (D.C. Cir. 1981), are frivolous actions subject to

dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(i). Therefore, this case will be dismissed by separate

order.

____________/s/__________ RUDOLPH CONTRERAS Date: April 14, 2026 United States District Judge