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Nature of Suit Code: 950
Nature of Suit: Constitutionality of State Statutes
Cause of Action: Civil Miscellaneous Case

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

KUANG-BAO P. OU-YOUNG,

Plaintiff,

v.

BRUCE IVES, an individual, and F. 

JOSEPH WARIN, an individual,

 Defendants.

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KUANG-BAO P. OU-YOUNG,

Plaintiff,

v.

BRUCE IVES, an individual, and F. 

JOSEPH WARIN, an individual,

 Defendants.

Case No. 15-mc-80149-BLF 

Case No. 15-mc-80151-EJD

ORDER DENYING LEAVE TO FILE 

COMPLAINTS

Pro se Plaintiff Kuang-Bao P. Ou-Young has been declared a vexatious litigant who must 

obtain leave of court before filing certain types of lawsuits, including those “alleging any 

violations of the federal criminal statutes, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b), 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c), 

and 18 U.S.C. § 371, and the FTCA, codified at 28 U.S.C. §2671 et seq.” See Order Granting 

United States’ Mot. to Dismiss and Declaring Plaintiff a Vexatious Litigant (“Vexatious Litigant 

Order”), ECF 40 in Case No. 3:13-cv-04442-EMC.

Before the Court are two proposed complaints submitted by Plaintiff and received by the 

Court on May 29, 2015 and June 1, 2015, in which Plaintiff purports to sue Bruce Ives and Joseph 

Warin. See Received Complaint, ECF 1 in Case No. 5:15-mc-80149-BLF; Received Complaint, 

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ECF 1 in Case No. 5:15-mc-80151-EJD. The two proposed complaints, which are identical, assert 

claims of “Fabrication” and “Intimidation” under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) and 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b), 

respectively. Thus the proposed complaints fall squarely within the above-referenced order 

requiring pre-filing review. 

The proposed complaints are substantially similar to two prior proposed complaints 

submitted to this Court in Ou-Young v. Ives, et al., Case No. 14-mc-80332-BLF, and Ou-Young v. 

Ives, et al., Case No. 14-mc-80335-BLF. In both cases, this Court determined that the proposed 

complaints failed to state a cognizable claim and thus denied Plaintiff leave to file them. 

Specifically, the Court noted that the statutory provisions under which Plaintiff sought to bring his 

claims, 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)-(c), are federal criminal statutes that do not confer a private right of 

action. Because Plaintiff’s current proposed complaints are brought under those same statutory 

provisions, they likewise fail to state a cognizable claim.

Accordingly, the Court hereby DENIES leave to file the proposed complaints.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 5, 2015

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BETH LABSON FREEMAN

United States District Judge

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