SESCEY v. KAMARA

CourtDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
DecidedApril 12, 2022
Docket2:22-cv-00082
StatusUnknown

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Opinion

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA

IN RE: NENNEH SESAY, : CIVIL ACTION NOS. Plaintiff. : 22-CV-0082 : 22-CV-0083 : 22-CV-0119 : 22-CV-0934 : 22-CV-0936 : 22-CV-0938 : 22-CV-0939 : 22-CV-1026 : 22-CV-1061 : 22-CV-1062 : 22-CV-1067 : 22-CV-1068 : 22-CV-1069 : 22-CV-1158 : 22-CV-1254 :

MEMORANDUM PAPPERT, J. April 12, 2022 Since 2022, pro se Plaintiff Nenneh Sesay1 filed fifteen cases in this Court, ten between March 7 and March 14 alone. The Court grants Sesay leave to proceed in forma pauperis in these cases and dismisses them pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B): Sesay v. Kamara, Civ. A. No. 22-0082, Sesay v. Sescey, Civ. A. No. 22- 0083, Sesay v. Sescey, Civ. A. No. 22-0119, Sesay v. Kamara, Civ. A. No. 22-1158, Sesay v. United States Military/Army, Civ. A. No. 22-0934, Sesay v. Xfinity/Comcast, Civ. A.

1 Since July 2021, Nenneh Sesay filed twenty lawsuits here. She spells her name inconsistently in her filings, but recently told the Clerk of Court in person that her name’s proper spelling is Nenneh Sesay. Nevertheless, some of her subsequent filings identify her as Nenneh Sesay Moet. For ease of reference and consistency, the Court refers to her simply as Sesay, including in the captions of her various cited civil actions. Sesay spelled her last name as “Sescey” in many filings and sued defendants with the same last name, spelled the same way, suggesting she may may share an unspecified familial relationship with these parties. The last names of those defendants will remain spelled as alleged in the original filings. No. 22-0936, Sesay v. Roc Nation/Music, Civ. A. No. 22-0938, Sesay v. Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, Civ. A. No. 22-0939, Sesay v. CYS/Delco, Civ. A. No. 22-1026, Sesay v. SEPTA Transportation, Civ. A. No. 22-1061, Sesay v. United States Military, Civ. A. No. 22- 1062, Sesay v. United States Military, Civ. A. No. 22-1067, Sesay v. Sierra Leone

Parliament, Civ. A. No. 22-1068, Sesay v. Roc Nation/Kamara Turney Family, Civ. A. No. 22-1069, and Sesay v. Biden Administration, Civ. A. No. 22-1254. Sesay is hereby informed that the Court may consider future similar filings to constitute an abuse of the privilege to proceed in forma pauperis. If she continues to file repeated, groundless complaints, she may be required to show cause why she should not be enjoined from filing non-habeas civil cases in forma pauperis. I From July through September 2021, Sesay filed five lawsuits in this Court: (1) Sesay v. YouTube, Civ. A. No. 21-3311; (2) Sesay v. Kamara, Civ. A. No. 21-3315; (3) Sesay v. Walmart/Onn Unit, Civ. A. No. 21-3355; (4) Sesay v. Boost Mobile, Civ. A.

No. 21-3638; and (5) Sesay v. Onwulsbull, Civ. A. No. 21-4379. Although each of the 2021 cases have been dismissed, they illustrate Sesay’s emerging pattern of litigation. In the 2021 cases, Sesay named a wide range of defendants including a social media company, a wireless communications carrier, a discount retailer and several individuals with whom she had had family or personal connections. While the cases’ specific allegations varied somewhat, they centered on Sesay’s contentions that: (1) she was the subject of illegal surveillance and monitoring made possible by illegal wiretaps, data breaches and the compromise of her cellphone, television and social media accounts; (2) she and her children were being tracked, stalked, and harassed as a result; and (3) her privacy rights were being violated because her “information”2 was being used without her consent. A On July 21, 2021, Sesay filed Sesay v. YouTube, Civ. A. No. 21-3311 (ECF 2), her

first Complaint in this Court. She named YouTube and its Legal Department as defendants and alleged her YouTube account was hacked, she was being harassed and stalked because of her 2002 appearance in an adult magazine and that YouTube violated its privacy policy and put Sesay and her children at risk. (Civ. A. No. 21-3311, ECF 2 at 3-4.) On November 18, 2021, the Court granted Sesay leave to proceed in forma pauperis, dismissed her federal claims with prejudice for failure to state a claim pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(ii) and dismissed her state law claims without prejudice for lack of jurisdiction. (Civ. A. No. 21-3311, ECF 9 & 10). Sesay could not state a plausible constitutional claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 because neither YouTube, as a private social media company, nor its Legal Department, were state

actors subject to liability under the statute. (Civ. A. No. 21-3311, ECF 9 at 3-4.) B Sesay filed her second case, Sesay v. Kamara, Civ. A. No. 21-3315, on the same day as her first. She subsequently filed an Amended Complaint and then a Second Amended Complaint (ECF 9) became the operative pleading. Badora Kamara was the sole defendant and Sesay alleged all her accounts were compromised and her images sold to others for money as a result of surveillance conducted in her home without her

2 None of Sesay’s 2021 cases ever sufficiently described the nature of the “information” she claimed the Defendants were using without her consent. consent. (Civ. A. No. 21-3315, ECF 9 at 2-3.) While she did not directly tie Kamara to her allegations, Sesay alleged his unspecified personal issues resulted in a data breach and the illegal removal of her children. (Id. at 3-4.) Sesay was granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis and her Second Amended

Complaint was dismissed without prejudice for failure to state a claim pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(ii) and for lack of jurisdiction on December 9, 2021. (Civ. A. No. 21-3315, ECF 10 & 11.) Sesay did not state a plausible constitutional claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 because it was unclear whether Kamara was a state actor subject to § 1983 liability. (Id.) She was given leave to file a third amended complaint if she could allege facts to show he was a state actor or if she could allege facts to establish diversity jurisdiction for any state law claims. Because Sesay did not do so, on March 24, 2022 the Court dismissed her federal claims with prejudice and her state law claims without prejudice without further leave to amend. (Civ. A. No. 21-3315, ECF 12.) C

On July 23, 2021, just two days after filing her first and second cases, Sesay filed a Complaint (ECF 1) in a third case: Sesay v. Walmart/Onn Unit, Civ. A. No. 21-3355. She named Walmart and its Onn Unit, an in-house electronics manufacturer, as defendants and alleged two Onn televisions she purchased at separate Pennsylvania Walmart stores had illegal wiretaps and illegal surveillance installed in them and were being used to extort her and convert her apartment into a production studio. (Civ. A. No. 21-3355, ECF 1 at 2-4.) On November 19, 2021, the Court granted Sesay leave to proceed in forma pauperis, dismissed her federal claims with prejudice for failure to state a claim pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(ii), and dismissed her state law claims without prejudice for lack of jurisdiction. (Civ. A. No. 21-3355, ECF 9 & 10). Sesay did not state a plausible constitutional claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983

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