Kinney v. Department of Justice

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit December 18, 2012

Kinney v. Department of Justice, 505 F. App'x 811 (10th Cir. 2012)

Opinion

ORDER AND JUDGMENT **

TIMOTHY M. TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.

Darryl Kinney sued the United States Departments of Justice and Defense and the State of Illinois, alleging many troubling claims. For example, he claims that defendants have “stalked [him] from state to state ... renting apartments around [him] ... [and] daily hacking] on his computers and rerouting] his telephone calls.” R., Vol. 1, at 9. “Each time he or his family leaves the house,” he says, “Military and Police personnel chase them, in an interstate stalking method.” Id. Kinney further claims that defendants have tampered with court records and other public files relating to him, interfered with his attempts to get a job, arranged to have him evicted from an apartment, and generally treated him and his family as “Terrorist[s] and Illegal Immigrants ... by some Illegal paid for hire conspiracy led crime ring as Chaney [sic] type hit squad stalking.” Id. at 10. Kinney attempts to state causes of action for employment discrimination, stalking, invasion of privacy, defamation, and violations of the Privacy Act. Kinney has filed similar lawsuits in Georgia, Illinois, Virginia, and Wisconsin, and twice previously in Kansas, 1 where he filed the instant suit.

*812 The district court dismissed Kinney’s complaint for failing to meet minimal pleading requirements and failure to state a claim on which relief can be granted. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(a)(2); 12(b)(6). We agree with the district court’s disposition. Although “[w]e read pro se complaints more liberally than those composed by lawyers,” Andrews v. Heaton, 483 F.3d 1070, 1076 (10th Cir. 2007), “the generous construction that we afford pro se pleadings has limits, and we must avoid becoming the plaintiffs advocate,” Firstenberg v. City of Santa Fe, 696 F.3d 1018, 1024 (10th Cir. 2012). Kinney’s allegations go beyond the limits of that to which we can afford a generous construction, but instead border on fanciful. Without more, “[a] court may dismiss as frivolous complaints ... postulating events and circumstances of a wholly fanciful kind.” Crisafi v. Holland, 655 F.2d 1305, 1307-08 (D.C.Cir. 1981).

We AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.

This order and judgment is not binding precedent except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata and collateral estoppel. It may be cited, however, for its persuasive value consistent with Fed. R.App. P. 32.1 and 10th Cir. R. 32.1.

. See Kinney v. Holder et al., No. 11-4176-JTM (D.Kan. 2012); Kinney et al. v. Dep’t of Justice et al., No. 11-6069 (N.D.Ill. 2012); Kinney et al. v. Dep’t of Justice et al., No. 11-4068-JTM (D.Kan. 2011); Kinney et al. v. Dep’t of Justice et al., No. 10-3481-JEC (N.D.Ga. 2011); Kinney et al. v. U.S. Dep’t of *812 Justice et al., No. 09-806-CMH (E.D.Va. 2009); Kinney et al. v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice et al. , Case No. 08-460-CNC (E.D.Wis. 2008).

Reference

Full Case Name: Darryl KINNEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Department of Defense, and State of Illinois, Defendants-Appellees
Cited By: 1 case
Status: Unpublished