Opinion
CIVIL ACTION 12-0334-WS-M
01-24-2013
REGINALD JOHNSON, et al., Plaintiffs, v. RANDALL CHAMPIONS, et al., Defendants.
ORDER
The plaintiffs have filed a "motion for an [sic] federal criminal investigation." (Doc. 45). The plaintiffs, citing no authority, insist the Court has a "mandatory administrative dut[y] to receive any offer of information of a federal crime" and commits "a felony under related obstruction of justice statutes" if he "blocks such report." (Id. at 2).
The Court has conducted an expansive search of the entirety of federal jurisprudence and has located only three instances in which a party has filed a "motion for criminal investigation." In all three, the motion was summarily denied, without discussion. Brennan v. Aulls, 1987 WL 38439 at *1 (6th Cir. 1987); Stewart v. Warden, 2012 WL 141476 at *1 n.1 (D. Md. 2012); Fleming v. Lackawanna County, 2010 WL 4224626 at *1 (M.D. Pa. 2010). The Court does likewise. The motion for a federal criminal investigation is denied.
By its action, the Court does not "block" the plaintiffs' request; the Court simply leaves the plaintiffs to the ordinary means of seeking such an investigation, i.e., by communication directly with law enforcement authorities.
WILLIAM H. STEELE
CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE