Oliver, III v. United States of America

Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

EDDIE V. OLIVER, III, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. 26-01048 (UNA) ) ) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA et al., ) ) Defendants. )

MEMORANDUM OPINION

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

forma pauperis (IFP). For the following reasons, the court grants the IFP motion and dismisses

the complaint.

Plaintiff, a resident of Columbus, Ohio, sues the United States, Middle East, Iraq, Iran,

Afghanistan, and various individuals for reasons unknown. He demands $500,000.00. Compl.,

ECF No. 1 at 4. In the statement of claim section of the complaint, Plaintiff begins “Delta Sigma

Theta Hazing resulting to a death in North Carolina and Omega Psi Phi Hazing resulting an open

terrorist attack in front of the Pentagon.” Id. He asserts, among other mystifying things, that

“Eddie Oliver Jr. is on a life imprison charge from 1993” and that the U.S. Marshal’s “office has

suggested that [t]hey turned” Oliver Jr. “into the Bureau of Prison, Columbus Ohio” as an

“attempt[] to cover up the high crime and falsified release of” Oliver Jr. “by suggest[ing] that

[plaintiff] Eddie Oliver III was schizophrenic and psychotic.” Id. The five-page complaint

continues in this incomprehensible manner and includes more than 1,600 pages of exhibits, ECF

Nos. 1-2 through 1-7. 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/____________ TANYA S. CHUTKAN Date: June 23, 2026 United States District Judge