Opinion
No. 01 C 1862
March 23, 2001
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
Marcella Lloyd has submitted self-filled-out forms of a Complaint of Employment Discrimination and an Application To Proceed Without Prepayment of Fees ("Application") in her effort to state a claim against what the Complaint describes as "Social Security Staff." There is certainly not much in the way of an understandable grievance (at least one that this federal court might properly entertain) that can be gleaned from Lloyd's opaque assertions in the Complaint. But what is clear is that Lloyd does not have a complaint of employment discrimination (though she does have some other kind of nondecipherable beef with the Social Security people).
Accordingly the Application is denied. And even under the generous test that is prescribed by Hishon v. King Spalding, 467 U.S. 69, 73 (1984). and even when that test is amplified by the even greater generosity afforded to pro se litigants by Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519, 520-21 (1972) (per curiam), this Court is constrained to — and it does — dismiss both the Complaint and this action as "frivolous" in the legal sense described in Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 325 (1989) and refined in Denton v. Hernandez, 504 U.S. 25, 32-33 (1992).