Simpson v. Bureau of Prisons

• Court: District Court, District of Columbia
• Decided: December 19, 2013
• Docket: Civil Action No. 2013-2015
• Status: Published

Opinion

FILED

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 1 g 2013 FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA C|erk, U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts David Ezell Simpson, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. z 5 ) ‘ ?,» 7/0 Bureau of Prisons, ) t ) Defendant. ) MEMORANDUM OPINION

This matter is before the Court on its initial review of plaintiffs pro se complaint and application to proceed in forma pauperis. The application will be granted and the complaint will be dismissed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § l9l5A, which requires the Court to screen and dismiss a prisoner’s complaint upon a determination that it fails to state a claim upon which relief may be granted.

Plaintiff is a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina.

He claims that the U.S. Bureau of Prisons ("BOP") denied him due process by allegedly incarcerating him "for 36 months after full execution (detainer) supervised release violation on June 26, 20l0." Compl. at 4. Plaintiff sues BOP under Bivens v. Six Unknown Namea' Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), for $300,000 in damages. However, "[i]t is . . . well settled that Bivens liability cannot be imposed on an agency of the Federal Government."

Drake v. FAA, 291 F.3d 59, 72 (D.C. Cir. 2002) (citi » ,,_ " . Meyer, 510 U.S. 47l, 475-79

(l994)). Hence, this action will be dismissc

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Date: December , 2013

er accompanies this Memorandum

Opinion.

ates District Judge