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Nature of Suit Code: 360
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 18:1962 Racketeering (RICO) Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

GRACE L. SANDOVAL,

Plaintiff,

CASE NO. 09-CV-2452 JLS (POR)

ORDER: (1) GRANTING MOTION

TO PROCEED IN FORMA

PAUPERIS, (2) DENYING

REQUEST FOR APPOINTMENT

OF COUNSEL AND (3) SUA

SPONTE DISMISSING WITH

PREJUDICE

(Doc. Nos. 2 & 3.)

vs.

HERBERT FARRAR,

Defendant.

Presently before the Court are Plaintiff Grace L. Sandoval’s motions (1) to proceed in forma

pauperis, (Doc. No. 2) and (2) for appointment of counsel. (Doc. No. 3.) For the reasons stated

below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiff’s motion to proceed in forma pauperis, sua sponte DISMISSES

WITH PREJUDICE Plaintiff’s complaint, and DENIES AS MOOT her motion for appointment of

counsel.

MOTION TO PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS

A Federal Court may authorize the commencement of an action without the prepayment of

fees if the party submits an affidavit, including a statement of assets, showing that he is unable to

pay the required filing fee. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a). Plaintiff reports that she is currently

unemployed, and that her only source of income is a very small amount of “unemployment

insurance.” Her bank accounts appear to contain little money and she reports having a

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substantially greater amount of debt. Based on the information provided by Plaintiff, the Court

grants Plaintiff’s motion to proceed in forma pauperis, but solely for the purpose of this motion. 

SUA SPONTE DISMISSAL

28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2) requires this Court to review cases in which it grants leave to

proceed in forma pauperis for sua sponte dismissal. Section 1915(e)(2) provides in part:

“Notwithstanding any filing fee, or any portion thereof, that may have been paid,

the court shall dismiss the case at any time if the court determines that. . . (B) the

action . . . (i) is frivolous or malicious; (ii) fails to state a claim on which relief

may be granted; or (iii) seeks monetary relief against a defendant who is immune

from such relief.” 

28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2). “[A] complaint, containing as it does both factual allegations and legal

conclusions, is frivolous where it lacks an arguable basis either in law or in fact.” Neitzke v.

Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 325 (1989). “[A] court is not bound, as it usually is when making a

determination based solely on the pleadings, to accept without question the truth of plaintiff’s

allegations,” but must “pierce the veil of the complaint’s factual allegations” to determine if the

claims are “fantastic or delusional,” “fanciful” or “rise to the level of the irrational or wholly

incredible.” Denton v. Hernandez, 504 U.S. 25, 32–33 (1992). 

Based on Plaintiff’s pleadings, the Court concludes that this suit is patently frivolous. 

Plaintiff names Hebert Farrar as the Defendant in this matter, but includes only a single allegation

against him. She alleges that he “provid[ed] false documents to ex prisoners form la mesa prison,

Tijuana Mexico to obtain false registered nurse titles and employment in hospitals in San Diego

Courty, California.” Plaintiff’s rambling and largely incoherent twenty-two page complaint also

makes numerous other fanciful allegations against completely unrelated parties. For example,

Plaintiff claims that “[t]he orphans from Fallujah, Iraq are demanded to order crime and murder by

many alcoholics, heroin addicts, cocaine addicts, etc. that live in San Diego County, California

including the many orphans from La Mesa Prison, Tijuana Mexico that have been provided with

false registered nurse titles and employment in hospitals.” She further alleges that “many illegals

from Mexicali Mexico including Bonnie Domannis, (sic) Diane (sic) Fienstien, (sic) etc. to steal

money from me.” The entirety of the allegations in this complaint can only be described as

irrational, delusional, and wholly incredible.

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Generally, when dismissing a complaint, “leave to amend should be granted unless the

court determines that the allegation of other facts consistent with the challenged pleading could

not possibly cure the deficiency.” DeSoto v. Yellow Freight Sys., Inc., 957 F.2d 655, 658 (9th Cir.

1992). In this case, however, “it is absolutely clear that the deficiencies of the complaint could not

be cured by amendment.” Franklin v. Murphy, 745 F.2d 1221, 1228 n.9 (9th Cir. 1984). 

Therefore, this case is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.

MOTION FOR APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL

Because the Court dismisses Plaintiff’s complaint with prejudice, her motion for

appointment of counsel is moot and therefore DENIED.

CONCLUSION

As stated above, the Court GRANTS Plaintiff’s motion for IFP, DISMISSES WITH

PREJUDICE Plaintiff’s complaint, and DENIES Plaintiff’s appointment of counsel motion. This

order ends the litigation in this case. The Clerk shall close the file.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: November 13, 2009

Honorable Janis L. Sammartino

United States District Judge

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