MURRAY v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA et al

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
SARA MURRAY,
Plaintiff,
v.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-2711 (UNA)
MEMORANDUM OPINION
This matter is before the Court on Plaintiff’s application for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis (ECF No. 2), pro se complaint (ECF No. 1), motions for leave to seal documents (ECF
Nos. 3, 4, 6), motions for injunctive relief (ECF Nos. 5, 7), and motion for leave to conduct
discovery (ECF No. 9). The Court will grant the application, grant leave to file under seal, dismiss
the complaint as frivolous under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(ii), and deny the motions for injunctive
relief and for discovery.
“A complaint must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to ‘state a claim to
relief that is plausible on its face.’” Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009) (quoting Bell Atl.
Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 570 (2007)). A complaint that lacks “an arguable basis either in
law or in fact” is frivolous, Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 325 (1989), and the Court cannot
exercise subject matter jurisdiction over a frivolous complaint, Hagans v. Lavine, 415 U.S. 528,
536-37 (1974) (“Over the years, this Court has repeatedly held that the federal courts are without
power to entertain claims otherwise within their jurisdiction if they are ‘so attenuated and
unsubstantial as to be absolutely devoid of merit.’”) (quoting Newburyport Water Co. v.
Newburyport, 193 U.S. 561, 579 (1904)); Tooley v. Napolitano, 586 F.3d 1006, 1010 (D.C. Cir.
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2009). Consequently, the Court is obligated to dismiss a complaint as frivolous when “the facts
alleged rise to the level of the irrational or the wholly incredible,” Denton v. Hernandez, 504 U.S.
25, 33 (1992), or “postulat[e] events and circumstances of a wholly fanciful kind,” Crisafi v.
Holland, 655 F.2d 1305, 1307-08 (D.C. Cir. 1981).
Upon review of the complaint, with its allegations of a vast conspiracy to deprive her of
her children and her business as well as wrongdoing by nearly every individual, judge, and
government entity associated with her prior legal proceedings, the Court concludes that this
pleading is frivolous. The Court cannot exercise jurisdiction of a frivolous complaint. An Order
will be issued separately.
DATE: October 14, 2026
TREVOR N. McFADDEN
United States District Judge
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