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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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KEVIN W. DUNIGAN,

Plaintiff,

v.

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF 

CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION, 

et al.,

Defendants.

No. 2:19-cv-2501 WBS-AC

Court of Appeals No. 20-15723

ORDER

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This matter is before the court on referral from the 

Ninth Circuit for the limited purpose of determining whether in 

forma pauperis status should continue for defendant on appeal or 

whether the appeal is frivolous or taken in bad faith. For the 

following reasons, the court finds that the appeal is frivolous.

In screening plaintiff’s complaint under 28 U.S.C.

1915A(a), Magistrate Judge Allison Claire found that the 

allegations in the complaint failed to present plausible factual 

allegations or legally coherent theories of liability 

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establishing a claim for relief. As Judge Claire pointed out, 

the complaint named ninety-six defendants, including individuals 

and both private and government entities; spanned over one 

hundred pages, not including exhibits; and appeared to be a

jumble of multiple other filings. The complaint did not state 

any claims against any of the defendants. Instead it was

comprised primarily of citations to various statutes, rules, and 

Bible verses. 

To the extent the complaint made any allegations, they 

were rambling, nearly incomprehensible accusations of a farreaching conspiracy by “homosexual liberals” to subject plaintiff 

to psychological abuse for “the purposes of gas lighting

plaintiff’s mental stability” and to punish him “for not 

accepting their criminal homosexual lifestyle” because of 

“plaintiff’s own personal religious fundamental beliefs against

homosexuality.”

Plaintiff also made general allegations that former and 

current governors Brown and Newsom conspired with California 

Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation administration to 

arbitrarily deny his inmate appeals and prevent him from going to 

the law library so that he is unable to reveal political 

corruption and “in order to give the media time to abuse the 

subliminal messaging system too [sic] gain access in the . . . 

new universal Christ Kingdom although the media’s prime intent is 

to aid the plight of the corrupt homosexual liberal democratic 

progressive movement.” 

Plaintiff appeared to go on to allege that he is the 

sovereign ruler of the universal Christ Kingdom and that these 

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actions are an attempt to take over his throne, and that there 

have been attempts to murder him by housing him “with gay inmate 

operatives.”

Accordingly, Judge Claire recommended that the 

complaint be dismissed as legally frivolous. Judge Claire also 

recommended that the dismissal be without leave to amend because, 

given the nature of plaintiff’s claims, there was no way for 

plaintiff to amend to state a claim upon which could be granted 

and leave to amend would be futile. (Docket No. 18). This court 

agreed and adopted the Magistrate Judge’s Findings and 

Recommendations in full. (Docket No. 22).

For the foregoing reasons, this court concludes that 

plaintiff’s appeal is frivolous and that forma pauperis status 

should not continue for defendant on appeal. A copy of this 

Order shall be delivered by the Clerk of this court to the Clerk 

of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 24, 2020

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