Ali et al v. U.S. Government NSA et al

Filing 7

MEMORANDUM Order Signed by the Honorable Milton I. Shadur on 5/23/2012.(tg, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
HANIYYAH N. ALI & R.W.A.,
Plaintiff,
v.
U.S. GOVERNMENT NSA OVERSIGHT/
AT&T,
Defendant.

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No.

12 C 3791

MEMORANDUM ORDER
HaNiyyah Ali (“Ali”) has filed a self-prepared document that
she captions as “Complaint,” coupled with Clerk’s-Office-supplied
forms of In Forma Pauperis Application (“Application”) and Motion
for Appointment of Counsel (“Motion”).

But any objective

consideration of the Complaint shows that it is totally lacking
in the “plausibility” called for by the Supreme Court’s teaching
in Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 562-63 (2007) and
Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009), just as her modest prayer
for relief in the amount of $199 million is equally implausible.
That being so, this Court might otherwise swiftly dismiss
both the Complaint and this action sua sponte on the premise that
Ali would be disinclined to try to muster up the $350 filing fee,
only to face dismissal on the same ground of her failure to
advance an intelligible and plausible claim.

But because this

Court views any such threshold dismissal upon initial screening
as applicable only to lawsuits by prisoners (see 28 U.S.C.
§1915A), all that will be done at this point is to deny both the

Application (it will be remembered that in forma pauperis status
may be denied on grounds of legal frivolousness) and the Motion.
If however no filing fee is paid on or before June 25, 2012,
dismissal of this action will be ordered at that time.

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Milton I. Shadur
Senior United States District Judge
Date:

May 23, 2012

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