FILED
3/4/2021
Clerk, U.S. District & Bankruptcy
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT Court for the District of Columbia
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
MARY JO WEIDRICK, )
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Plaintiff, )
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v. ) Civil Action No. 21-416 (UNA)
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JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR. et al., )
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Defendants. )
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Plaintiff, appearing pro se, has filed a Complaint against President Joe Biden and the
United States Congress and an application to proceed in forma pauperis. The court will grant the
application and dismiss this action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(i) (requiring dismissal
of a case upon a determination that the complaint is frivolous).
Plaintiff brings this action primarily “to allow” her “to immediately confer with her
attorney of 3-4 years, Mark J. Geragos, and to immediately be deposed by the Manhattan District
Attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., for purposes of testifying before the Grand Jury to indict, arrest,
try; and imprison Defendants immediately.” Compl. at 4. Plaintiff alleges, among other things,
that “Defendants, named and unnamed, have engaged in terrorist activity 24/7 for over 31 years
and continue to do so[.]” Id. Such activities include “violently raping” plaintiff’s “brain 24/7 with
mind-reading equipment,” “slandering” her, “slowly trying to kill her[,] and simultaneously
making a joke of Plaintiff and this terrorism of her.” Id. In addition, plaintiff alleges far-reaching
“smear campaigns against her” by national and local media, “seemingly all federal intelligence
agencies,” state and local officials, and social media. Id. at 5.
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Complaints premised on fantastic or delusional scenarios or supported wholly by
allegations lacking “an arguable basis either in law or in fact” are subject to dismissal as frivolous.
Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 325 (1989); see Denton v. Hernandez, 504 U.S. 25, 33 (1992)
(“[A] finding of factual frivolousness is appropriate when the facts alleged rise to the level of the
irrational or the wholly incredible[.]”); Best v. Kelly, 39 F.3d 328, 330-31 (D.C. Cir. 1994) (a court
may dismiss claims that are “essentially fictitious”-- for example, where they suggest “bizarre
conspiracy theories . . . [or] fantastic government manipulations of their will or mind”) (citations
and internal quotation marks omitted)); Crisafi v. Holland, 655 F.2d 1305, 1307-08 (D.C. Cir.
1981) (“A court may dismiss as frivolous complaints . . . postulating events and circumstances of
a wholly fanciful kind.”). The instant complaint satisfies this standard and therefore will be
dismissed. A separate order accompanies this Memorandum Opinion.
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AMIT P. MEHTA
Date: March 4, 2021 United States District Judge
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