JONES v. DOVER DOWNS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
MATTHEW JONES, 	)
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Plaintiff, 	)
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v. 	) 	Civil Action No. 	25-04450 (UNA)
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DOVER DOWNS, 	)
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Defendant. 	)
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Plaintiff, appearing pro se, has filed a complaint and an application to proceed in forma
pauperis (IFP). For the following reasons, the Court grants the IFP application and dismisses the
complaint.
Plaintiff, a resident of Greenwood, Delaware, sues Dover Downs in Dover, Delaware.
He alleges that the “business of Dover Downs created me, planned to create me, in unquestionably
unhealthiest living circumstances-without any way to avoid rape, death, constant duress, H
diseases, Black Plague, Scarlet Fever, poaching, mental illness, sequestering, constant taunting,
slavery and without sex.” Compl., ECF No. 1 at 4 (Statement of Claim). Plaintiff seeks “amounts
exceeding nine hundred ninety nine trillion” dollars. Id.
Complaints, as here, lacking “an arguable basis either in law or in fact,” Neitzke v. Williams,
490 U.S. 319, 325 (1989), and “postulating events and circumstances of a wholly fanciful kind,”
Crisafi v. Holland, 655 F.2d 1305, 1307-08 (D.C. Cir. 1981), are frivolous actions subject to
dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(i). Therefore, this case will be dismissed by separate
order.
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RUDOLPH CONTRERAS
Date: April 14, 2026 	United States District Judge
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