Court Opinion

ID: 987970
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Date Created: 2013-07-03 15:13:12.777684+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:48:46.674993
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In the United States Court of Federal Claims
                        Nos. 13-406C, 13-410C, 13-438C, 13-448C,
                       13-449C, 13-450C, 13-451C, 13-452C, 13-453C

                                    (Filed: July 3, 2013)
                                 (NOT TO BE PUBLISHED)

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 CANDACE WILLRICH,                             )
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                        Plaintiff,             )
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           v.                                  )
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 UNITED STATES,                                )
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                        Defendant.             )
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                                     OPINION AND ORDER

LETTOW, Judge.
        Plaintiff, Candace Willrich, has filed nine complaints requesting monetary relief from the
government in various amounts ranging as high as $100 billion for alleged assaults upon her
person and character, in addition to other alleged inflicted injuries. Plaintiff has requested leave
to proceed in forma pauperis in each of these docketed cases, representing to the court that she is
currently unemployed, and that her cash assets are minimal, totaling significantly less than
$10,000.
                                        BACKGROUND1
        Ms. Willrich alleges in these nine cases a variety of assaults upon her person, theft of her
intellectual property, intentional misrepresentations to Ms. Willrich, defamation of her character,
and disparagement of the reputation of her business. See, e.g., Compl., Case No. 13-438C
(entitled “Complaint for Attempted Murder on the Morning of June 25, 2013”); Compl., Case
No. 13-410C (entitled “Complaint for Attempt to Stroke a Mathematician’s Brain”). These
injuries have allegedly been inflicted upon Ms. Willrich by multiple persons, including but not
limited to President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, the United States Secret Service, and

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       This statement of the circumstances relating to Ms. Willrich’s claim is taken from her
submissions and does not include any findings of fact.
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Ms. Malia Obama. Mot. for Order to Seal Ct. Records, Case No. 13-406C at ¶¶ 10, 16; Compl.,
Case No. 13-410C, Ex. 1 at 5.
      On June 17, 2013, Ms. Willrich filed her first case in this court, docketed as No. 13-
406C. She filed the case docketed as No. 13-410C on June 10, 2013, and another docketed as
Case No. 13-438C on June 28, 2013. The remaining six cases were filed in this court on July 1,
2013.
                                  ANALYSIS
                         A. Applications to Proceed In Forma Pauperis
        Contemporaneously with filing each complaint, Ms. Willrich submitted a motion for
leave to proceed in forma pauperis. These applications are appropriately supported, and thus, for
good cause shown, Ms. Willrich’s applications to proceed in forma pauperis are GRANTED.
                                         B. Jurisdiction
         The court may address jurisdiction sua sponte even if jurisdiction is not challenged by an
opposing party. “[A] ‘court must satisfy itself that it has jurisdiction to hear and decide a case
before proceeding to the merits.’” Hardie v. United States, 367 F.3d 1288, 1290 (Fed. Cir. 2004)
(quoting PIN/NIP, Inc. v. Platte Chem. Co., 304 F.3d 1235, 1241 (Fed. Cir. 2002) (citing View
Eng'g, Inc. v. Robotic Vision Sys., Inc., 115 F.3d 962, 963 (Fed. Cir. 1997))). Under the Tucker
Act, this court has subject matter jurisdiction over claims founded “upon the Constitution, or any
Act of Congress or any regulation of an executive department, or upon any express or implied
contract with the United States, or for liquidated or unliquidated damages in cases not sounding
in tort.” 28 U.S.C. § 1491(a)(1) (emphasis added). Because Ms. Willrich’s complaints
exclusively allege torts and do not draw upon any money-mandating statute, regulation or
contract, the court does not possess subject matter jurisdiction over her claims. Accordingly, the
court must dismiss Ms. Willrich’s claims for lack of jurisdiction under Rule 12(b)(1) of the Rules
of the Court of Federal Claims (“RCFC”).
                                      CONCLUSION
        The plaintiff’s nine docketed cases are DISMISSED for lack of subject matter
jurisdiction pursuant to RCFC 12(b)(1) because each allegation contained in these complaints
sounds in tort. The clerk shall enter judgment in accord with this decision.

       No costs.

       It is so ORDERED.
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                                                     Charles F. Lettow
                                                     Judge

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