Opinion
Civil Action 23-02165 (UNA)
10-27-2023
BRIAN KEITH ABNER, Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION et al., Defendants.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JIA M. COBB United States District Judge.
This action, brought pro se, is before the Court on review of Plaintiff's Complaint and application to proceed in forma pauperis. The Court will grant the application and dismiss this action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B) (requiring immediate dismissal of a case upon a determination that the complaint fails to state a claim on which relief may be granted).
Complaints filed by pro se litigants are held to less stringent standards than those applied to formal pleadings drafted by lawyers. See Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519, 520 (1972). Still, pro se litigants must comply with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Jarrell v. Tisch, 656 F.Supp. 237, 239 (D.D.C. 1987). Rule 8(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requires that a complaint contain a short and plain statement of the grounds upon which the court's jurisdiction depends, a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief, and a demand for judgment for the relief the pleader seeks. Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(a). It “does not require detailed factual allegations, but it demands more than an unadorned, the-defendant-unlawfully-harmed-me accusation.” Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).
In the one-page Complaint, Plaintiff, a resident of Spanaway, Washington, alleges only that on July 8, 2023, the FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., “and all FBI offices in America kidnapped and false[ly] imprisoned” him “in the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City in a [sic] MRI machine[.]” ECF No. 1. Plaintiff has not demanded relief, and he has not provided a jurisdictional statement. Consequently, this case will be dismissed by separate order.