Miranda v. U.S. Government

• Court: District Court, District of Columbia
• Decided: July 21, 2015
• Docket: Civil Action No. 2015-1163
• Status: Published

Opinion

FILED

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUL 2 i 2015 FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Clerk, US. District & Bankruptcy Courts tor the District of Columbia Sigfredo Miranda, ) ) Plaintiff” ) Case: 1:15—cv—O1163 ) Assigned To : Unassigned V' ; Assign. Date : 7/21/2015 ' t'on: Pro Se Gen. Civil (F) US. Government, ) Descr'p ' ) Defendant. ) ) MEMORANDUM OPINION

This matter is before the Court on review of the plaintiff” S pro se complaint and application to proceed in fbrma pauperis. The application will be granted and the case will be dismissed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e), which requires the Court to dismiss a complaint upon

a determination that it, among other grounds, is frivolous.

Plaintiff, a resident of the District of Columbia, alleges only that the United States “put my birth certificate in the stock change an[d] made million[s] of dollar[s] in there.” This allegation is the type warranting dismissal of the case under § 1915(e)(2)(B)(i) as frivolous.

Neilzke v. Williams, 490 US. 319, 325 (1989). See Best v. Kelly, 39 F.3d 328, 330-31 (DC. Cir.

1994) (a court may dismiss claims that are “essentially fictitious”—- for example, where they suggest “bizarre conspiracy theories . . . [or] fantastic government manipulations of their will or mind”) (citations and internal quotation marks omitted); Crisafi v. Holland, 655 F.2d 1305, 1307-08 (DC. Cir. 1981) (“A court may dismiss as frivolous complaints . . . postulating events and circumstances of a wholly fanciful kind”). A separate order of dismissal accompanies this

Memorandum Opinion,

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Date: July [(5 ,2015 /United Sta sDisrictJudg