:Mehran: Abarzary & Soheila: Ferdowsi. et al v. One West Bank, FSB
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ORDER Sua Sponte DISMISSING Complaint: this action is DISMISSED without prejudice. Through this Order of dismissal, Plaintiffs have notice of the Complaint's deficiencies and an opportunity to respond by filing an Amended Complaint. If Plaint iffs wish, they may file an Amended Complaint that adheres to the pleading requirements of Rule 8 within 30 days of the filing date of this Order. Signed by Judge Janis L. Sammartino on 3/28/12.(All non-registered users served via U.S. Mail Service)(lmt)
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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:MEHRAN: ABARZARY & SOHEILA:
FERDOWSKI; DAVID-WYNN: MILLER,
CASE NO. 12-CV-562 JLS (POR)
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ORDER SUA SPONTE
DISMISSING COMPLAINT
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Plaintiffs,
vs.
(ECF No. 1)
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ONE WEST BANK, FSB,
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Defendant.
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On March 6, 2012, Plaintiffs “:Mehran: Abazary & Soheila: Ferdowski and David-Wynn:
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Miller,” proceeding pro se, filed the Complaint in this action against Defendant One West Bank,
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FSB. (Compl., ECF No. 1.) For the reasons stated below, the Court sua sponte dismisses
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Plaintiffs’ Complaint for failure to comply with the requirements of Rule 8, and grants Plaintiffs
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leave to amend.
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Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a) provides: “A pleading that states a claim for relief
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must contain . . . a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to
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relief.” Although Rule 8 “does not require ‘detailed factual allegations,’ . . . it [does] demand[]
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more than an unadorned, the-defendant-unlawfully-harmed-me accusation.” Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556
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U.S. 662, 129 S. Ct. 1937, 1949 (2009) (quoting Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 555
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(2007)). In other words, “a plaintiff’s obligation to provide the ‘grounds’ of his ‘entitle[ment] to
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relief’ requires more than labels and conclusions, and a formulaic recitation of the elements of a
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cause of action will not do.” Twombly, 550 U.S. at 555 (citing Papasan v. Allain, 478 U.S. 265,
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286 (1986)). Generally, courts must broadly construe pleadings filed by pro se litigants, affording
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pro se plaintiffs any benefit of the doubt. See Erickson v. Pardus, 551 U.S. 89, 94 (2007);
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Thompson v. Davis, 295 F.3d 890, 895 (9th Cir. 2002). However, even when receiving liberal
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construction, pro se litigants must still comply with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,
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including Rule 8. See King v. Atiyeh, 790 F.2d 1362, 1364 (9th Cir. 1986).
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The Court finds the Complaint does not sufficiently show how Plaintiffs are entitled to
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relief. As an illustration of the type of nonsensical and undecipherable text contained in the
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Complaint, the caption reads as follows:
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IN THE DOCUMENT-CONTRACT-POSTAL-VESSEL-COURT IN THE
CALIFORNIA-TERRITORY WITHIN THIS UNITED-STATES-DI-STRICTCOURT-BUILDING ARE WITH THE TRANSFER FROM THE STATECOURT TO THIS DOCUMENT-CONTRACT-POSTAL-VESSELFEDERAL-COURT. FOR THIS THREE-DAY-GRACE-TIME-RECISSIONCLAIM IS WITH THIS DAMAGE-CLAIM BY THE QUO-WARRANTOCOMPLAINT-DOCUMENT-CLAIM and: LIS-PENDENS-LIEN-CLAIM:
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(Compl. 1) (emphasis in original). The Complaint goes on in this same manner for eleven
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erattically-formatted pages. The civil cover sheet attached to the Complaint lists 42 U.S.C. §
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19861 and 15 U.S.C. § 16922 as federal statutes under which Plaintiffs are filing, also stating
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“QUO-WARRANTO COMPLAINT FRADULANT (sic) SYNTAX GRAMER (sic)” as the
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“Nature of Suit.” (Civil Cover Sheet, ECF No. 1-1.) However, it is impossible to decipher any
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such causes of action, or any other cognizable legal theories, from the text of Plaintiffs’ Complaint
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itself. The attached Deed of Trust is similarly unhelpful in ascertaining Plaintiffs’ claims or bases
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for this action. (Deed of Trust, ECF No. 1 at 12.) The Deed lists Mehran Abazary and Soheila
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Fedowski, husband and wife as joint tenants, as “Borrower,” and IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., as
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“Lender.” (Id.) Beyond these reference to several of the parties to this case, it is unclear how the
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42 U.S.C. § 1986 provides a cause of action for neglecting to prevent interference with civil
rights.
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15 U.S.C. § 1692 contains Congressional findings and declaration of purpose with regard to
the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
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Deed of Trust relates to the Complaint. The Deed also contains substantial handwritten text, and
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handwritten numbers appear above each typed word, apparently as part of some kind of code.
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Stamped at the bottom of each page is what appears to be the key to that code: “:Syntax-word-key-
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meaning: 1=Adverb, 2=Verb, 3= Adjective, 4=Pronoun; 8=Past-time, 9=Future-time,
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9=Conjunction, NC=No-Contract.” Again, the meaning or relevance of this code is not explained.
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This is not the first such Complaint filed by Plaintiff Miller.3 In nearly identical
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circumstances, judges in this district have dismissed Plaintiff’s incomprehensible and
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unintelligible complaints for failure to assert “a short and plain statement of the claim showing that
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the pleader is entitled to relief” under Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2). See, e.g., Miller v. Michael Burnett
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& Matthews, LLP, No. 11cv2590 WQH (WVG), 2012 WL 909462 at *2 (S.D. Cal. Order Mar. 15,
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2012) (“Dismissal is appropriate because the indecipherable allegations of the Complaint lack any
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cognizable legal theory or sufficient facts to support a cognizable legal theory.”); Abraham-D.
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Tomas v. AEGIS Mortgage Co., No. 10cv2286 BEN (BLM) (S.D. Cal. Orders Nov. 18, 2010 and
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Jan. 28, 2011) (sua sponte dismissing case without prejudice). Here, the Court similarly finds
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dismissal proper, where the Court cannot discern from the Complaint any facts or allegations
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sufficient to support a cognizable legal theory upon which relief could be granted. Instead, the
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Complaint is “filled with nonsensical, erratically-formatted lines of text that fail to allege any
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facts, let alone a coherent legal claim.” Abraham-D. Tomas, No. 10cv2286 BEN (BLM) (S.D.
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Cal. Order Jan. 27, 2011).
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Dismissal of this Complaint, especially without prejudice, is warranted under a variety of
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rules of civil procedure. See Amsterdam v. Office of Hawaiian Affairs, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS
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91639 at *8-9 (D. Haw., Aug. 16, 2011) (citing Franklin v. Murphy, 745 F.2d 1221, 1227 n.6 (9th
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Cir. 1984)) (explaining that a paid complaint that is “obviously frivolous” may be dismissed sua
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sponte for numerous grounds, including Rule 12(b)(6), Rule 12(b)(1), and Rule 8 itself); Nasious
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v. Two Unknown B.I.C.E. Agents, 492 F.3d 1158, 1162 (10th Cir. 2007) (stating that dismissing a
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Indeed, another unintelligible Complaint was recently filed by Plaintiff Miller, and,
simultaneously with this Order, the Court issues a similar Order sua sponte dismissing that Complaint
on the same grounds. See Mehran Abazary of the [Mehran: Afazary] v. Andersen, Hilbert & Parker,
No. 12cv720 JLS (BLM) (S.D. Cal. filed March 26, 2012).
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case under Rule 41(b) for failure to comply with Rule 8 allows the plaintiff “another go at
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trimming the verbiage; accordingly, a district court may, without abusing its discretion, enter such
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an order without attention to any particular proceedings.”); Apple v. Glenn, 183 F.3d 477, 479 (6th
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Cir. 1999) (noting that district courts may sua sponte dismiss completely implausible paid
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complaints under Rule 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim so long as the dismissal is without
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prejudice or the plaintiff is given notice and an opportunity to respond, or under Rule 12(b)(1) for
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lack of subject matter jurisdiction, with or without prejudice).
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Accordingly, this action is DISMISSED without prejudice. Through this Order of
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dismissal, Plaintiffs have notice of the Complaint’s deficiencies and an opportunity to respond by
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filing an Amended Complaint.4 If Plaintiffs wish, they may file an Amended Complaint that
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adheres to the pleading requirements of Rule 8 within 30 days of the filing date of this Order. Any
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such Amended Complaint must set forth a clear statement of Plaintiffs’ claims in order to give
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Defendant a fair opportunity to respond and to allow the Court to perform its responsibilities in
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managing this action.
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IT IS SO ORDERED.
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DATED: March 28, 2012
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Honorable Janis L. Sammartino
United States District Judge
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Plaintiff Miller may also wish to remind himself of the instructions contained in Judge
Benitez’ Order in an above-mentioned case also filed by Miller, Abraham-D. Tomas, No. 10cv2286
BEN (BLM) (S.D. Cal. Order Jan. 27, 2011), which sets forth in detail Rule 8's pleading requirements
and thoroughly explains how the unintelligible amended pleadings in that case, which are quite similar
in substance and form to the instant Complaint, still failed to comply with these requirements.
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