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2009 Decisions                                                                                                             States Court of Appeals
                                                                                                                              for the Third Circuit

4-8-2009

Bur Mtr Vehicles v. Chandan Vora
Precedential or Non-Precedential: Non-Precedential

Docket No. 08-3288

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ALD-142                                                       NOT PRECEDENTIAL

                       UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                            FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT
                                 ___________

                               Nos. 08-3288 and 08-3797
                                     ___________

                          BUREAU OF MOTOR VEHICLES
                                 KILLINGER,

                                           v.

                               DR. CHANDAN S. VORA
                                                Appellant

                      ____________________________________

                    On Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Western District of Pennsylvania
                             (D.C. Civil No. 08-cv-00149)
                     District Judge: Honorable Gustave Diamond
                     ____________________________________

                  Submitted for Possible Summary Action Pursuant to
                       Third Circuit LAR 27.4 and I.O.P. 10.6
                                   March 26, 2009

             Before: SLOVITER, FUENTES and JORDAN, Circuit Judges

                             (Opinion filed: April 8, 2009)
                                     _________

                                       OPINION
                                       _________

PER CURIAM

      Doctor Chandan Vora appeals from the orders of the United States District Court

of the Western District of Pennsylvania dismissing her notice of removal pursuant to 28
U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B) and denying her motion to vacate.

       In June 2008, Vora filed a notice of removal and an “Omnibus” motion to dismiss

all charges of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles against her and requested that her license be

reinstated. Vora attached a copy of the Official Notice of Suspension of Driving

Privileges issued by the Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing

regarding traffic citation No. B51231670. The Notice informed Vora that her driving

privilege was suspended effective May 21, 2008, for failing to respond to the traffic

citation and noted that she owed the Bureau $93.50. Vora also attached a copy of a CT

Scan report dated August 18, 2005, which was taken for a possible brain lesion.

       In her notice of removal (which is very similar to one she filed previously), Vora

alleges “deep conspiratorial activities of Italian origin people with their supporters and

workers which also include some British origin people as well as Irish people and

Catholics . . . to defeat me in all respects....” She accuses the defendants of continuous

discrimination of all kinds, including “extracting” her inventions and discoveries and

ruining her reputation and that of her family. As she has asserted in a prior complaint,

Vora alleges that the defendants engage in “fabricating diagnoses, emailing ordinances,

statutes to target Vora, creat[ing] a 2 nd Ramanujan, in her life. . . .”   1
                                                                                She asserts that her

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         Srinivasa Ramanujan, born in South India in 1887, was a brilliant mathematician
whose contributions to the field were comparable to mathematicians Euler and Jacobi.
He moved to England in 1914, but he soon fell ill. He returned to India in 1919 and died
in 1920, at the age of thirty-two.

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condition is neurologic, not psychiatric, emphasizing that she has no history of psychiatric

illness or of paranoid schizophrenia.

       By order entered on June 30, 2008, the District Court granted Vora in forma

pauperis status and dismissed her notice of removal as frivolous because it sought the

removal of state court proceedings over which the District Court had no jurisdiction.

Vora then filed a motion to vacate, attaching a copy of letter from the Bureau of Driver

Licensing dated October 3, 2007, notifying her that the suspension that had been imposed

at that time was rescinded. She also included an “affidavit” in which she reiterated that

she is completely sane and that a judge’s appointment of a Guardian ad litem for her (who

was later discharged) was fraudulent. The District Court denied the motion on August 13,

2008. Vora filed timely notices of appeal from both District Court orders.2

       We have jurisdiction over this appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. Upon de novo

review of the record and careful consideration of Vora’s notice of appeal and other

submissions, we conclude that no substantial question is presented on appeal and that

summary action is warranted. See LAR 27.4 and I.O.P. 10.6. Vora’s notice of removal

was correctly denied. She petitioned for removal, presumably under the civil rights

removal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1443, alleging that the state court judgments, jury verdicts,

bench warrants and citations were the result of a conspiracy by certain Italian, British,

Irish and Catholic officers and other municipal officials or employees to violate her civil

       2
           The appeals have been consolidated.

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rights. The civil rights removal statute applies only to the removal of state court

proceedings. Id.; See also 28 U.S.C. § 1447(a). Even if we assume arguendo that the

civil rights removal statute applies to the matters that Vora seeks to remove, her

unsupported allegations do not meet the specific criterion for § 1443 removal. See City

of Greenwood v. Peacock, 384 U.S. 808, 827 (1966); Ronan v. Stone, 396 F.2d 502, 503

(1 st Cir. 1968).

        Accordingly, we will summarily affirm the judgment of the District Court.

Appellant’s motion for injunctive relief pending appeal is denied.

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