Case ID: f-supp-3d_58/html/0001-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BERYL A. HOWELL, United States District Judge", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Kenneth Wayne LEAMING, Plaintiff, v. Barack Hussein OBAMA, Defendant.
    Civil Action No. 13-1483
    United States District Court, District of Columbia.
    Filed September 26, 2013
    September 19, 2013
    Kenneth Wayne Learning, Seattle, WA, pro se.
    
      
      . Although the name on the case caption of the handwritten complaint omits the surname Learning, the Court' takes judicial notice of the plaintiff's prior cases in this Court listing his full name as Kenneth Wayne Learning. In addition, plaintiff’s signature on the application to proceed in forma pauperis includes Learning, as does the financial documents furnished by prison authorities.
    
   MEMORANDUM OPINION

BERYL A. HOWELL, United States District Judge

This matter is before the Court on its initial review of plaintiffs pro se complaint and application to proceed in forma pau-peris. The application will be granted and the complaint will be dismissed. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915A (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 Federal 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. Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 325, 109 S.Ct. 1827, 104 L.Ed.2d 338 (1989), it will be dismissed. See 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.”). A separate Order of dismissal accompanies this Memorandum Opinion.