JONES v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
MATTHEW JONES, 	)
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Plaintiff, 	)
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v. 	) 	Civil Action No. 	25-04430 (UNA)
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF 	)
TRANSPORTATION, 	)
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Defendant. 	)
MEMORANDUM OPINION
This action brought pro se is before the Court on review of Plaintiff’s form complaint and
application for leave to proceed in forma pauperis. For the following reasons, the Court grants the
application and dismisses the complaint.
Plaintiff, a resident of Greenwood, Delaware, sues the U.S. Department of Transportation
for reasons unknown. He recounts the time he “became a licensed driver” at age 16 and asserts,
inter alia, that “[f]or 24 years since,” he has “been the only person driving who is old enough to
be driving. No women or girls have been seen on or near the roads of the USA in all of this time.”
Compl., ECF No. 1 at 4 (Statement of Claim). In the relief section of the complaint, Plaintiff lists
without any context “[a]ttempted murder, slavery, rape, disease spreading [and], massacring” and
“demand[s] $1,000,000 for fraud and risk of death and illnesses and injuries that the Department
caused by giving 100% of its issued drivers licenses to underage youths under the age of 16.” 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
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dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(i). Therefore, this case will be dismissed by separate
order.
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CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER
Date: May 20, 2026 	United States District Judge
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