Jones v. Dover Downs

Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

MATTHEW JONES, )

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Plaintiff, )

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v. ) Civil Action No. 25-04450 (UNA)

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DOVER DOWNS, )

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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