. Florida, 687 F. App'x 861, 862 (11th Cir. 2017) (affirming district court's sua sponte dismissal of sovereign citizen's complaint as frivolous); United States v. Benabe, 654 F.3d 753, 761-67 (7th Cir. 2011) (discussing sovereign citizen arguments as having no validity in country's legal system and recommending that they be "rejected summarily, however they are presented"); Lawrence v. Holt, No. 5:18-cv-639-AKK-JHE, 2019 WL 1999783, at *2 (N.D. Ala. Apr. 12, 2019), report and recommendation adopted, 2019 WL 1989607 n.1 (N.D. Ala. May 6, 2019) (noting the Eleventh Circuit has repeatedly rejected sovereign citizen legal theories as frivolous); Roach v. Arrisi, 8:15-cv-2547-T-33AEP, 2016 WL 8943290, at *2 (M.D. Fla. Jan. 7, 2016) (recognizing that sovereign citizen theories have been consistently rejected by courts and describing them as "utterly frivolous," "patently ludicrous," and a waste of the court's time "being paid for by hard-earned tax dollars") (citation omitted)); see also Patten v. LaClair, No. 2:19-cv-763-FtM-60NPM, 2020 WL 94571 (M.D. Fla. Jan. 8, 2020), adopting report and recommendation, 2019 WL 7500467 (M.D. Fla. Dec. 12, 2019) (dismissing another lawsuit brought by the same Plaintiff here against a financial institution that also relied upon a sovereign citizen theory for its allegations). Plaintiff has now been admonished in two separate lawsuits in this Court of the frivolousness of claims against a financial institution based on allegations rooted in a sovereign citizen theory of relief.
His arguments are similar to the sovereign citizen arguments that courts have routinely dismissed as frivolous. See Mitchell v. Vesely, No. 5:17-cv-325-OC-30PRL, 2017 WL 11049094, at *1 (M.D. Fla. Aug. 23, 2017); e.g., Banks v. Mike Pompeo et al., No. 2:19-cv-755-FtM-29NPM, 2019 WL 11478072 (M.D. Fla. Dec. 30, 2019) (denying sovereign citizen's construed motion to proceed in forma pauperis and dismissing the case); Patten v. LaClair, No. 2:19-cv-763-FtM-60NPM, 2020 WL 94571 (M.D. Fla. Jan. 8, 2020) (same); Bey v. Sec'y, US Dep't of State, No. 6:18-mc-39-Orl-40TBS, 2018 WL 3326865 (M.D. Fla. July 7, 2018) (same).