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Timestamp: 2017-05-26 16:58:07
Document Index: 644489572

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1915', '§ 1983', '§ 1915', '§ 1915', '§ 1915', '§ 1915']

| Francis P. Grandinetti, #A0185087 v. U.S. Attorney General
Francis P. Grandinetti, #A0185087 v. U.S. Attorney General
FRANCIS P. GRANDINETTI, #A0185087, PLAINTIFF,v.U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE, U.S. DEPT. OF DEFENSE, U.S. AGENCIES DOE, DOHLS, DHHS, DEFENDANTS.
Plaintiff Francis P. Grandinetti, a Hawaii inmate confined at the Saguaro Correctional Center ("SCC"), located in Eloy, Arizona, has filed a pro se prisoner civil rights action in this court that he titles "Petitioner's Agency-Appeal in Federal Court." Compl., ECF #1. Plaintiff apparently files this suit because he wants to "renew his federal identification, for 1986-2012." Id. at 2. He has not submitted an in forma pauperis application nor paid the $350 statutory filing fee.
Grandinetti is well acquainted with the federal courts, having filed over 150 federal civil actions and appeals since 1995. See PACER Case Locator, http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov. At least three of Plaintiff's prior lawsuits qualify as "strikes" under § 1915(g):
(3) Grandinetti v. Iranon, et al., 1:96-cv-00101 (E.D. Tex., § 1983 case dismissed as frivolous and for failure to state a claim on Jan. 26, 1998).*fn1 Therefore, Grandinetti may not bring a civil action without complete prepayment of the $350.00 filing fee unless he is in imminent danger of serious physical injury. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g).
A plaintiff who has three or more strikes may not bring a civil action without complete prepayment of the $350.00 filing fee unless he or she is in imminent danger of serious physical injury. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g). To meet the "imminent danger" requirement, the "threat or prison condition [must be] real and proximate," Ciarpaglini v. Saini, 352 F.3d 328, 330 (7th Cir. 2003) (quoting Lewis v. Sullivan, 279 F.3d 526, 531 (7th Cir. 2002)), and the allegations must be "specific or credible." Kinnell v. Graves, 265 F.3d 1125, 1128 (10th Cir. 2001).
"[T]he availability of the [imminent danger] exception turns on the conditions a prisoner faced at the time the complaint was filed, not some earlier or later time" Andrews v. Cervantes, 493 F.3d 1047, 1053 (9th Cir. 2007). "[T]he exception applies if the complaint makes a plausible allegation that the prisoner faced 'imminent danger of serious physical injury' at the time of filing." Id. at 1055. Claims concerning an "imminent danger of serious physical injury" cannot be triggered solely by complaints of past abuse. See Ashley v. Dilworth, 147 F.3d 715, 717 (8th Cir. 1998); Luedtke v. Bertrand, 32 F. Supp. 2d 1074, 1077 (E.D. Wis. 1999).
Grandinetti's Complaint is rambling, disconnected, and incoherent. He claims that he is military dependent and has been on "federal-exile and federal detention status from the federal venues of Hawaii and New York since 1995. Compl., ECF #1 at 4. Plaintiff gives few details, but is apparently challenging the conditions of his confinement in various unspecified prisons and seeks new government issued identification. Grandinetti's fanciful and irrational allegations do not support a finding that he is in imminent danger of serious physical injury. Grandinetti may not, therefore, proceed in this action without prepayment of the civil filing fee, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g). Moreover, the Complaint "lacks an arguable basis either in law or in fact," and must be dismissed as frivolous pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1915A(b) & 1915(e)(2). Nietzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 325 (1989); see also Denton v. Hernandez, 504 U.S. 25, 32--33 (1992).
Accordingly, the Complaint and action are DISMISSED without prejudice. If Grandinetti wishes to reassert these claims in the future, he may do so by concurrently submitting the entire $350.00 filing fee ...