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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Federal Question: Other Civil Rights

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 

Justin Sloan Medved, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

Dream Works Animation SKG Inc., 

Defendant.

No. CV-15-1362-PHX-DKD 

REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION 

TO THE HONORABLE SUSAN R. BOLTON, U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE: 

 Plaintiff has filed a complaint as well as an application to proceed without the 

prepayment of filing fees and costs based upon an assertion of indigency and a motion to 

allow electronic filing. The Court must undertake a review pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 

1915(e)(2) to determine whether or not this case is properly in federal court. The review 

leads to the conclusion that the claims asserted in the complaint are not plausible and 

cannot be maintained under any theory of law. This matter is addressed by this Report 

and Recommendation to the Presiding Judge of the Phoenix Division because although 

this case was assigned to the undersigned judge pursuant to the Local Rules of this Court, 

the undersigned, as a Magistrate Judge, does not have the judicial authority to enter a 

dispositive order absent the consent of the parties. 

 The gravamen of Plaintiff’s complaint can best be expressed in the Complaint’s 

own words set forth at paragraphs 28 and 29: 

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28. The character Puss In Boots was seemingly created to specifically 

humiliate an entire dying race of people with red hair while slightly 

referencing to the plaintiff through the relationships of animals to humans 

and the common insecurity of American people with brown hair who can 

relate to problematic alien nationalities much closer than people with red 

hair can. As people with red hair were among the first presidents of the 

United States and as such Germanic presence people with red hair have, the 

character Puss In Boots was created to cause the plaintiff to be deprived for 

the sake of Hispanics by such indirect references to the plaintiff as people 

with red hair are just like Hispanic pussies and not like a Bear as plaintiff’s 

last name means which would only be fitting if he had brown hair. That 

character was created for the sake of brown heads everywhere and to put 

such people of nationalities with brown hair in Russia on a pedestal and 

degrade people with red hair in the United States as such, whose presidents 

name closely resembles the term “poontang” which also is a reference to 

the female genetalia and make money off of the racism of the vast majority 

of the population which and that prejudice that people with brown hair 

commonly have against people with red hair which caused the curiosity in 

an audience that were left with such satisfaction to that racial hate against 

people with red hair that a curiosity lingered on to what the people with 

brown hair at Dreamworks had had done with people with red hair by 

having created such an entertaining character, as most audiences associate 

such studios by consisting of people who have brown hair as it consists of 

the majority of the general population. 

29. That curiosity that Dreamworks left their very large audiences with 

resulted in extremely intense hate crimes and community standing damage 

against plaintiff and directed all of that energy against people with red hair 

which closely referenced that it was meant to deprive plaintiff, the energy 

that the character originally started with that Dreamworks had created 

through the traits of the character, and very directly violated plaintiff with 

the character Puss In Boots on an epic scale upon through the film Justin 

and the Knights of Valour. 

 Upon this factual background, Plaintiff asserts claims for 1) conspiracy to violate 

plaintiff’s civil rights, 2) intentional infliction of emotional distress, 3) negligent 

infliction of emotional distress, 4) appropriation of name and likeness to violator’s 

benefit, 5) fraud, and 6) publicity given to private life. None of these causes of action are 

plausibly viable in light of the factual assertions set forth in the Complaint and none set 

forth a cause of action for which relief can be granted. The Complaint repeatedly asserts 

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that “Defendants” have harmed Plaintiff but there is no plausible allegation in the 

Complaint which suggests that the one Defendant in this case, DreamWorks Animation 

SKG, Inc., did anything to harm Plaintiff other than the allegation that “DreamWorks 

Animation, SKG , is an who is responsible in part for the creation of the character Puss In 

Boots from the popular Shrek series which was seemingly created for the purpose of 

causing racial injustices to people with red hair by which was targeted at plaintiff through 

the film Justin and the Knights of Valour which was produced by a studio owned in part 

by the actor who plays the character Puss In Boots.” (Complaint at ¶ 7) Even construing 

this allegation in the light most favorable to Plaintiff the Court cannot fathom how this 

allegation states a claim for which relief can be granted. Nor can the Court conceive how 

any amendment could render the actual assertion into plausible claims. Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 

556 U.S. 662, 679 (2009). In light of the recommendation regarding the lack of viability 

of Plaintiff’s Complaint, the Court also recommends that the application to proceed 

without the prepayment of filing fees and the motion to allow electronic filing be denied 

as well. 

IT IS THEREFORE RECOMMENDED that Justin Sloan Medved’s Complaint 

be dismissed with prejudice. 

This recommendation is not an order that is immediately appealable to the Ninth 

Circuit Court of Appeals. Any notice of appeal pursuant to Rule 4(a)(1), Federal Rules 

of Appellate Procedure, should not be filed until entry of the district court’s judgment. 

The parties shall have fourteen days from the date of service of a copy of this 

recommendation within which to file specific written objections with the Court. See, 28 

U.S.C. § 636(b)(1); Rules 72, 6(a), 6(b), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Thereafter, 

the parties have fourteen days within which to file a response to the objections. Failure 

timely to file objections to the Magistrate Judge’s Report and Recommendation may 

result in the acceptance of the Report and Recommendation by the district court without 

further review. See United States v. Reyna-Tapia, 328 F.3d 1114, 1121 (9th Cir. 2003). 

Failure timely to file objections to any factual determinations of the Magistrate Judge will 

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be considered a waiver of a party’s right to appellate review of the findings of fact in an 

order or judgment entered pursuant to the Magistrate Judge’s recommendation. See Rule 

72, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 

Dated this 29th day of July, 2015. 

cc: SRB 

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