Craig v. United States Government ( 2010 )

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FILED
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MAY 1 :~ ?8m
Clerk, U.S. District & Bankruptcy
Craig, ) Courts for the District of Columbia
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Plaintiff, )
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v. ) Civil Action No.
United States Government,
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10 0769
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Defendants. )
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Plaintiff Craig (no last name) has filed an application to proceed without prepayment of
fees and a pro se complaint. The application will be granted and the complaint will be dismissed
for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted.
Craig, who identifies himself in the caption as a temporary resident of "Saint Elizabeth's
Psychiatric Hospital," brings this suit against the federal government. Providing no factual
predicate, he concludes that the federal government is responsible for the alleged murder of his
mother, baby brother, and his own "spiritual murder." Complaint ~ 5. This complaint warrants
dismissal because it appears to arise from "factual contentions [that] are clearly baseless" and
"describ[e] fantastic or delusional scenarios." Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319,327-28 (1989)
(determining that courts have the "unusual power to pierce the veil of the complaint's factual
allegations and dismiss those claims whose factual contentions are clearly baseless").
Accordingly, this complaint will be dismissed as frivolous. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(ii).
A separate order accompanies this memorandum
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