United States Court of Appeals 

For the Seventh Circuit

Chicago, Illinois 60604

Submitted June 17, 2022*

Decided June 23, 2022

Before

MICHAEL Y. SCUDDER, Circuit Judge

AMY J. ST. EVE, Circuit Judge

CANDACE JACKSON‐AKIWUMI, Circuit Judge

No. 22‐1379

KHALED SHABANI,

Plaintiff‐Appellant,

v.

TONY EVERS,

Defendant‐Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District

Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.

No. 21‐cv‐788‐bbc

Barbara B. Crabb,

Judge.

    

* The appellees were not served with process in the district court and are not

participating in this appeal. After examining the appellant’s brief and the record, we have

concluded that the case is appropriate for summary disposition. FED. R. APP. P. 34(a).

NONPRECEDENTIAL DISPOSITION

To be cited only in accordance with FED. R. APP. P. 32.1
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No. 22‐1380

KHALED SHABANI,

Plaintiff‐Appellant,

v.

JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR.,

Defendant‐Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District

Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.

No. 21‐cv‐807‐bbc

Barbara B. Crabb,

Judge.

No. 22‐1381

KHALED SHABANI,

Plaintiff‐Appellant,

v.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF

INVESTIGATION,

Defendant‐Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District

Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.

No. 22‐cv‐107‐bbc

Barbara B. Crabb,

Judge.

O R D E R

These three lawsuits are only the most recent examples of frivolous legal attacks

that Khaled Shabani has made against government officials for asserted civil‐rights

violations. Because of his persistent abuse of the litigation process, we restricted him in

2020 from litigating in the circuit without fully prepaying the filing fee for any lawsuit.

Shabani v. City of Madison, 828 Fed. App’x 330 (7th Cir. 2020). He paid the filing fee for

two of his three new cases, in which he alleges police misconduct along the lines of

claims he made in previously dismissed suits—police assaults against him and his

minor child; a conspiracy among governmental entities to deprive him of his job, his

property, and his marriage; and unlawful wiretapping of his phone. For these illegal

acts, he blames Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, President Joe Biden, and the Federal

Bureau of Investigation.

The district court screened Shabani’s complaints and dismissed them as

frivolous. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B). The court found his claims “irrational and
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wholly incredible,” adding that they also were barred by claim preclusion because they

were based on allegations identical to those he made in previously dismissed suits.   

Shabani’s brief on appeal recounts the injustices he says he has suffered, but it

does not mention the district court’s reasons for dismissing his complaint, much less

offer any coherent argument addressing why we should disturb the court’s judgment.

See Fed. R. App. P. 28(a)(8); Klein v. OʹBrien, 884 F.3d 754, 757 (7th Cir. 2018). We will

not “scour the record in an attempt to formulate a cogent argument” when an appellant

has presented none. Jeffers v. Comm’r, 992 F.3d 649, 653 (7th Cir. 2021).   

Finally, we warn Shabani that further frivolous litigation may lead to sanctions.

DISMISSED