Jones v. U.S. Department of Transportation

• Court: District Court, District of Columbia
• Decided: May 20, 2026
• Docket: Civil Action No. 2025-4430
• Status: Published

Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

MATTHEW JONES, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. 25-04430 (UNA) ) ) U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ) TRANSPORTATION, ) ) Defendant. )

MEMORANDUM OPINION

This action brought pro se is before the Court on review of Plaintiff’s form complaint and

application for leave to proceed in forma pauperis. For the following reasons, the Court grants the

application and dismisses the complaint.

Plaintiff, a resident of Greenwood, Delaware, sues the U.S. Department of Transportation

for reasons unknown. He recounts the time he “became a licensed driver” at age 16 and asserts,

inter alia, that “[f]or 24 years since,” he has “been the only person driving who is old enough to

be driving. No women or girls have been seen on or near the roads of the USA in all of this time.”

Compl., ECF No. 1 at 4 (Statement of Claim). In the relief section of the complaint, Plaintiff lists

without any context “[a]ttempted murder, slavery, rape, disease spreading [and], massacring” and

“demand[s] $1,000,000 for fraud and risk of death and illnesses and injuries that the Department

caused by giving 100% of its issued drivers licenses to underage youths under the age of 16.” 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/______________ CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER Date: May 20, 2026 United States District Judge