DocketNumber: Civil Action No. 2020-2301
Judges: Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
Filed Date: 8/25/2020
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 8/25/2020
FILED 8/25/2020 Clerk, U.S. District & Bankruptcy UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT Court for the District of Columbia FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ROBERT V. JUSTICE, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. 20-2301 (UNA) ) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) ) Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION This matter is before the Court on its initial review of plaintiff’s application for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and pro se complaint. The application will be granted, and the complaint will be dismissed. Plaintiff alleges that he is “no longer a productive member of the State,” Compl. ¶ 4, and considers it his “duty to the State . . . not to become a burden on it,”id. ¶ 6.
For this reason, plaintiff allegedly “has a duty and privilege to purge (euthanize) himself.”Id. He asks the
Court to issue an Order “[t]hat any hospital of [his] choosing and . . . instruction . . . shall administer pentobarbital to end his life.”Id. This is a
matter over which the Court lacks jurisdiction, and the complaint must be dismissed. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(h)(3). A separate order accompanies this Memorandum Opinion. DATE: August 25, 2020 /s/ COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY United States District Judge