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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Federal Question: Bivens Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

YOUNG YIL JO,

Plaintiff,

v.

SIX UNKNOWN AGENTS OR MR. 

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

BARACK OBAMA,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:14-cv-00320-AWI-MJS (PC)

ORDER STRIKING COMPLAINT AND 

REQUIRING PLAINTIFF TO FILE 

SIGNED COMPLAINT AND EITHER FILE 

APPLICATION TO PROCEED IN FORMA 

PAUPERIS OR PAY FILING FEE WITHIN 

THIRTY DAYS

(ECF No. 1)

Young Yil Jo, is a federal detainee currently incarcerated in the Etowah County 

Detention Center in Gadsden, Alabama. On March 6, 2014, Mr. Jo filed what purports to 

be a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 

I. BACKGROUND

Mr. Jo is well known to this Court. He has been filing lawsuits here since at least 

1997.

1 He began filings the cases shortly after this Court sentenced him in a criminal 

proceeding, and he has persisted with them over the years even while incarcerated 

outside of this District. As of December 16, 2013, Mr. Jo has filed 290 lawsuits in this 

Court. He filed 90 in 2013 alone. 

 

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See 1:97-cv-05879; 1:97-cv-05912. The Court takes judicial notice of its docket reflecting all actions filed 

by Young Yil Jo.

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Each of the 90 cases filed in 2013 uses one of four boiler-plate pleading formats

each a single-page in length. One format, used in 50 actions,2is a typewritten form in 

which only the plaintiff’s

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name and identification number varies. Another format, used in 

16 actions,4is also a typewritten form on which Mr. Jo hand-writes the plaintiff's name 

and identification number and adds a few lines of handwriting. The third format, used in 

13 actions,5is typewritten in all capitals and in a different font than the first two and adds 

varying amounts of handwriting along with the typewritten lines. The final format, used in 

11 actions,6is an entirely handwritten form essentially duplicated each time. 

 The content of each of these 290 complaints is rambling and incoherent. None has 

set forth a cognizable claim under federal law. Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 677-78,

129 S.Ct. 1937, 1949 (2009); Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 555, 127 

S.Ct. 1955, 1965 (2007). Sample language includes: "An adopted in full a proper a writ of 

execution a contract a consider a petition for reconsider a foreign State . . ." (1:13-cv01730-LJO-MJS, ECF No. 1); "Deposit in the bank a tax payer in equity pay in full within 

ten days for a determination a motion to set aside a judgment of his conviction and a 

remand one to five years treasury notes for a determination a selected. . . " (1:13-cv01917-AWI-SAB, ECF No. 1); and "A writ of certiorari and now reversed required 

constant attain a petition for review on a writ of certiorari to a decision a recover on a 

theory persistent insist firmly for . . ." (1:13-cv-0154-AWI-GSA, ECF No. 1). Such 

phrases, repeated verbatim throughout the actions, are gibberish. 

 

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See 1:13-cv-1729; 1:13-cv-1730; 1:13-cv-1763 through 1:13-cv-1768; 1:13-cv-1830 through 1:13-cv1846; 1:13-cv-1908 through 1:13-cv-1910; 1:13-cv-1927; 1:13-cv-1928; 1:13-cv-1946 through 1:13-cv1950; 1:13-cv-1952 through 1:13-cv-1959; 1:13-cv-1961; 1:13-cv-1962; 1:13-cv-1964; 1:13-cv-1965; and 

1:13-cv-1967 through 1:13-cv-1969.

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As noted below, Mr. Jo has filed a number of these actions using names and identification numbers not 

his own.

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See 1:13-cv-1731; 1:13-cv-1911 through 1:13-cv-1920; and 1:13-cv-1922 through 1:13-cv-1926.

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See 1:13-cv-1107; 1:13-cv-1288; 1:13-cv-1311; 1:13-cv-1358; 1:13-cv-1479; 1:13-cv-1480; 1:13-cv-1653; 

1:13-cv-1559; 1:13-cv-1605 through 1:13-cv-1607; 1:13-cv-1732; and 1:13-cv-1733.

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See 1:13-cv-0048; 1:13-cv-0098; 1:13-cv-0114; 1:13-cv-0154; 1:13-cv-0173; 1:13-cv-0192; 1:13-cv-0751; 

1:13-cv-0837; 1:13-cv-0933; 1:13-cv-1034; and 1:13-cv-1383.

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That Mr. Jo. has more recently submitted numerous complaints in a single 

envelope for filing on the same day is further indication of something other than a rational 

productive motive. (On September 13, 2013, he filed two actions;

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on October 7, 2013,

three;

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on October 28, 2013, five;9on November 2, 2013, six;

10 on November 13, 2013, 

seventeen;

11 on November 25, 2013, twenty-one;12 and on December 2, 2013, he filed 

twenty actions).

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He has also taken to filing actions in the names of other persons. There is no 

indication that any of these others are aware that cases are being filed in their names. 

None are signed by them. The only address available for these purported plaintiffs (either 

written on the complaint or as the return address on the envelope) is the Etowah County 

Jail -- where Plaintiff is currently housed. Court service of responsive papers on the

purported Plaintiffs, are returned with the notation "Undeliverable, No Name or A# Ever 

Here."14 

II. DISCUSSION

A. Pleading Unsigned

The Complaint is unsigned. The Court cannot consider unsigned filings and 

 

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See 1:13-cv-01479 and 1:13-cv-01480. 

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See 1:13-cv-01605; 1:13-cv-01606; and 1:13-cv-01607. 

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See 1:13-cv-01729; 1:13-cv-01730; 1:13-cv-01731; 1:13-cv-01732; and 1:13-cv-01733.

10 See 1:13-cv-01764; 1:13-cv-01763; 1:13-cv-01765; 1:13-cv-01766; 1:13-cv-01767; and 1:13-cv-01768.

11 See 1:13-cv-01833; 1:13-cv-01834; 1:13-cv-01844; 1:13-cv-01846; 1:13-cv-01830; 1:13-cv-01831; 

1:13-cv-01832; 1:13-cv-01835; 1:13-cv-01836; 1:13-cv-01837; 1:13-cv-01838; 1:13-cv-01839; 1:13-cv01840; 1:13-cv-01841; 1:13-cv-01842; 1:13-cv-01843; and 1:13-cv-01845.

12 See 1:13-cv-01908; 1:13-cv-01909; 1:13-cv-01910; 1:13-cv-01911; 1:13-cv-01912; 1:13-cv-01913; 1:13-

cv-01914; 1:13-cv-01915; 1:13-cv-01916; 1:13-cv-01917; 1:13-cv-01918; 1:13-cv-01919; 1:13-cv-01920; 

1:13-cv-01921; 1:13-cv-01922; 1:13-cv-01923; 1:13-cv-01924; 1:13-cv-01925; 1:13-cv-01926; 1:13-cv01927; and 1:13-cv-01928.

13 See 1:13-cv-01969; 1:13-cv-01946; 1:13-cv-01947; 1:13-cv-01948; 1:13-cv-01949; 1:13-cv-01950; 1:13-

cv- 01952; 1:13-cv-01953; 1:13-cv-01954; 1:13-cv-01955; 1:13-cv-01956; 1:13-cv-01957; 1:13-cv-01958; 

1:13-cv-01959; 1:13-cv-01961; 1:13-cv-01962; 1:13-cv-01964; 1:13-cv-01965; 1:13-cv-01967; and 1:13-cv01968.

14 See e.g., 1:13-cv-01832; 1:13-cv-01957. 

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therefore, the Complaint shall be stricken from the record. Plaintiff has thirty days to file a 

signed complaint that complies with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a).15 

Plaintiff must also either file a motion seeking leave to proceed in forma pauperis 

or pay the $400.00 filing fee in full.

B. No Cognizable Claim

Even if the current Complaint were signed, it sets forth no intelligible claim for 

relief. It consists of nonsensical typed boilerplate as above. These boilerplate allegations 

set forth no cognizable cause of action and suggest maliciousness and the absence of 

good faith. See Kinney v. Plymouth Rock Squab Co., 236 U.S. 43, 46 (1915) (the test for 

maliciousness is a subjective one which requires the Court to "determine the . . . good 

faith of the applicant"); see also Wright v. Newsome, 795 F.2d 964, 968 n.1 (11th Cir. 

1986) (in determining a litigant's good faith, a court may consider not only the printed 

words of the complaint, but also the circumstances and history of the filing, the tone of 

the allegations, and the presence or absence of probative facts).

Below the typed boilerplate is handwritten “a ICE officer name Mr. Purdy called to 

my daughter in Los Angeles, CA He said to my daughter your father Jo must stop class 

action lawsuits imminent danger to him He said this is a threatened in violation law ‘good 

conscience’ conclusion of suit or action in other proceedings amend under 28 U.S.C. 

1915(d)(f).” 

This handwritten allegation is not sufficient to state a federal claim. Plaintiff shows 

no adverse action by a named Defendant in retaliation for any specified activity protected 

by the First Amendment. See Rhodes v. Robinson, 408 F.3d 559, 567–68 (9th Cir. 2005). 

He shows no need for and entitlement to injunctive relief based upon a “case or 

 

15 A complaint must contain “a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to

relief. . . .” Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2). Detailed factual allegations are not required, but “[t]hreadbare recitals of

the elements of a cause of action, supported by mere conclusory statements, do not suffice.” Iqbal, 556 

U.S. at 678, citing Bell Atlantic Corp., 550 U.S. at 555. While a plaintiff’s allegations are taken as true, 

courts “are not required to indulge unwarranted inferences.” Doe I v.Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 572 F.3d 677, 

681 (9th Cir. 2009). To state a viable claim for relief, Plaintiff must set forth factual allegations sufficient to 

state a plausible claim for relief. Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 678; Moss v. U.S. Secret Service, 572 F.3d 962, 969 

(9th Cir. 2009). The mere possibility of misconduct falls short of meeting this plausibility standard. Iqbal,

556 U.S. at 678-79; Moss, 572 F.3d at 969.

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controversy” and “real and immediate” threat of injury. See City of Los Angeles v. Lyons, 

461 U.S. 95, 101-102 (1983); Oakland Tribune, Inc. v. Chronicle Publishing Company, 

Inc., 762 F.2d 1374, 1376 (9th Cir. 1985), quoting Apple Computer, Inc. v. Formula 

International, Inc., 725 F.2d 521, 523 (9th Cir. 1984).

III. ORDER

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. The Complaint is stricken from the record for lack of signature,

2. The Clerk’s Office shall send Plaintiff a Bivens complaint form and an 

application to proceed in forma pauperis,

3. Within thirty (30) days from the date of service of this Order, Plaintiff must

file a signed complaint and either file a motion seeking leave to proceed in

forma pauperis or pay the $400.00 filing fee for this action, and

4. The failure to comply with this Order will result in dismissal of this

action.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 12, 2014 /s/Michael J. Seng 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE DEAC_Signature-END:

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