BLD-112 NOT PRECEDENTIAL
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT
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No. 10-3683
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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
v.
DR. CHANDAN S. VORA,
Appellant
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On Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Western District of Pennsylvania
(D.C. Civil No. 10-cv-00184)
District Judge: Honorable Gustave Diamond
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Submitted for Possible Summary Action Pursuant to
Third Circuit LAR 27.4 and I.O.P. 10.6
February 10, 2011
Before: SLOVITER, JORDAN and GREENAWAY, JR., Circuit Judges
(Opinion filed March 1, 2011)
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OPINION
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PER CURIAM
Chandan S. Vora appeals from the order of the United States District Court for the
Western District of Pennsylvania dismissing her notice of removal pursuant to 28 U.S.C.
1915(e)(2)(B)(ii) and denying her motion to vacate.
Vora’s notice of removal, filed in July 2010, alleged that the Cambria County
Common Pleas Court’s Cost and Fines Collection Bureau discriminated against her. She
sought to remove the Bureau’s letter notices warning Vora that she owed over two-
hundred dollars in past court-ordered costs, fines, restitution and fees, and that her failure
to pay the debt could result in being held in contempt of court, an arrest warrant,
suspension of her driver’s license, or referral of the matter to a collection agency. She
attached copies of two letter notices dated June 4 and 7, 2010. Vora’s rambling
discrimination claims span a lifetime of complaints that people have been trying to steal
her inventions and that the employees of the Cambria County Common Pleas Court (and
the police department) have fabricated criminal charges against her based on her Indian
ethnicity and deliberately destroyed official 911 tapes and her own recordings of 911
calls, among other things.
By order entered on July 21, 2010, the District Court granted in forma pauperis
status to Vora and dismissed her notice of removal as frivolous because it sought to
remove state court proceedings over which the District Court lacked jurisdiction. Vora
filed a motion to vacate the dismissal order in which she set forth “the contents of all
prior pleadings in all prior cases to this date . . . .” The District Court denied the motion
on August 4, 2010. Vora filed this timely notice of appeal.
We have jurisdiction over this appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. Upon de
novo review of the record and careful consideration of Vora’s notice of appeal and other
submissions, we conclude that there is no substantial question presented on appeal and
that summary action is warranted. See LAR 27.4 and I.O.P. 10.6. We agree with the
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District Court’s dismissal of Vora’s notice of removal and denial of her motion to vacate.
Vora’s petition for removal, presumably brought under the civil rights removal statute, 28
U.S.C. § 1443, alleges that the Common Pleas Court’s collection notices are
discriminatory, part of a conspiracy perpetrated, in part, by the court’s collections bureau.
The civil rights statute applies only to the removal of state court proceedings. Id.; see
also, 28 U.S.C. 1447(a). Assuming, arguendo, that the civil rights removal statute applies
to the matters that Vora seeks to remove, her unsupported allegations do not meet the
specific criteria for § 1443 removal. See City of Greenwood v. Peacock, 384 U.S. 808,
827 (1966); Ronan v. Stone, 396 F.2d 502, 503 (1st Cir. 1968).
Accordingly, we will summarily affirm the District Court judgment.
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