Quartey v. Obama

• Court: District Court, District of Columbia
• Decided: June 25, 2014
• Docket: Civil Action No. 2014-1068
• Status: Published

Opinion

FILED

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUN 2 5 2014 FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Clem. 113. District & Ba k Courts for the District of golfiiiigia Mary Aku Quartey, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. /§/- /0 5/ ) Barack Obama et al., ) ) ) Defendants. ) MEMORANDUM OPINION

This matter is before the Court on its initial review of plaintiff s pro se complaint and application for leave to proceed in forma 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.l

Plaintiff Mary Aku Quartey currently resides at a women’s shelter in the District of Columbia. She purports to sue a list of well-known individuals, including President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Condoleezza Rice, Mitt Romney, and Chief Justice John Roberts. Compl. Caption. The statements in the complaint are nonsensical. Plaintiff states, for example, that she “claim[s] ownership of I Honorable Mary Aku Quartey’s Congressional Seats, Properties and Trillions of Capital Wealth.” Compl. at 1. She also states that her “ex-husband

Mr. Alfred K. Quartey was conveyed to the Supreme Court, the Long Worth Building, Postal

' In her in forma pauperis application, plaintiff lists her income as $6,720 for an unspecified

pay period. On the other hand, plaintiff states that she is receiving food stamps and the complaint reveals that she lives in a homeless shelter. Despite the incongruities, plaintiff does not appear to be intentionally misleading the Court. Therefore, dismissal of the case on the basis

that “the allegation of poverty is untrue” is not warranted. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(A). l

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