Leaming v. Obama

FILED UNITED sTATEs D1sTR1CT CoURT SEP 2 6 2013 FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA c%lgg; #ldr$t.h£;|;t|::;rtlg g:gg;,;:mg%,a Kenneth Wayne Leamingl, ) Plaintiff, g v. § civil A¢ri@n N@. /3" /$l/; Barack Hussein Obama, § 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. See 28 U.S.C. § l9l5A (requiring the Court to screen and dismiss a prisoner’s complaint upon a determination that it is frivolous). Plaintiff is a prisoner incarcerated at the SeaTac F ederal Detention Center in Seattle, Washington. He purports to register a claim against President Barack Obama or the United States, but for what injury is wholly unclear. Since the complaint "lacks an arguable basis either in law or in fact," Neitzke v. Wl'lliams, 490 U.S. 319, 325 (1989), it will be dismissed See Crisaj"z v. Holland, 655 F.2d 1305, 1307-08 (D.C. Cir. l98l) ("A court may dismiss as frivolous complaints . . . postulating events and circumstances of a wholly fanciful kind."). A separate Order of dismissal accompanies this Memorandum Opinion. /%//Fra¢é /¢\ United States ‘District Judge Date: September f § , 2013 ’ Although the name on the case caption of the handwritten complaint omits the surname Leaming, the Court takes judicial notice of the plaintiffs prior cases in this Court listing his full name as Kenneth Wayne Leaming. In addition, plaintiff s signature on the application to proceed in forma pauperis includes Leaming, as does the financial documents furnished by prison authorities.