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Parties Involved:
Linda Specht
Defendant
Preston Daniel Vines
Plaintiff

Document Text:

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PRESTON D. VINES,

Plaintiff,

 v.

LINDA SPECHT M.D.,

Defendant. /

No. 10-02305 CW

ORDER GRANTING

APPLICATION TO

PROCEED IN FORMA

PAUPERIS AND

DISMISSING

COMPLAINT

Plaintiff Preston D. Vines files an application for leave

to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP). The matter was decided on the

papers. Having considered all of the papers filed by Plaintiff,

the Court grants the application to proceed IFP and dismisses the

complaint.

DISCUSSION

A court may authorize a plaintiff to prosecute an action in

federal court without prepayment of fees or security if the

plaintiff submits an affidavit showing that he or she is unable to

pay such fees or provide such security. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a).

Plaintiff has submitted the required documentation, and it is

evident from his application that his assets and income are

insufficient to enable him to prosecute the action. Accordingly,

the application to proceed without the payment of the filing fee is

granted. 

The Court’s grant of Plaintiff's application to proceed IFP,

however, does not mean that he may continue to prosecute his

complaint. A court is under a continuing duty to dismiss a case

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filed without the payment of the filing fee whenever it determines

that 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)(B)(i)-(iii). Because a dismissal pursuant to 

§ 1915(e)(2)(B) is not a dismissal on the merits, but rather an

exercise of the court's discretion under the IFP statute, the

dismissal does not prejudice the filing of a paid complaint making

the same allegations. Denton v. Hernandez, 504 U.S. 25, 32 (1992).

Plaintiff makes the following allegations in his complaint. 

Defendant Doctor Linda Specht put a computer chip in Plaintiff’s

left knee. Plaintiff did not want her to do this. Plaintiff

requests that the Federal Bureau of Investigation take a cyber

forensic net picture of the chip because this is the only way to

obtain evidence of the chip’s existence. Plaintiff is experiencing

pain and suffering because there are people dead in the United

States with computer chips in their bodies. Based on these

allegations, Plaintiff requests $100,000,000 in damages.

Even construed liberally, Plaintiff’s allegations fail to

state a claim upon which relief can be granted. Furthermore,

amendment would be futile. Therefore, the complaint is dismissed

without leave to amend.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: 6/29/2010 

CLAUDIA WILKEN

United States District Judge

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PRESTON D. VINES,

Plaintiff,

 v.

LINDA SPECHT M.D.,

Defendant. /

Case Number: CV10-02305 CW 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. District Court,

Northern District of California.

That on June 29, 2010, I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the attached, by placing said copy(ies)

in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s) hereinafter listed, by depositing said envelope in

the U.S. Mail, or by placing said copy(ies) into an inter-office delivery receptacle located in the Clerk's

office.

Preston Daniel Vines

1919 Alice Drive

Vallejo, CA 94589

Dated: June 29, 2010

Richard W. Wieking, Clerk

By: Nikki Riley, Deputy Clerk

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