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· 6/17/2009

Curran v. Holder

Citations

  • 626 F. Supp. 2d 30
  • 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51147
  • 2009 WL 1687566

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding that plaintiff's claims of alleged government surveillance and harassment as part of a \national security investigation\ were fanciful and insufficient
  • explaining that federal courts are “without power to entertain claims otherwise within their jurisdiction if they are ‘so attenuated and unsubstantiated as to be absolutely devoid of merit’”
  • finding that the plaintiff’s “laundry list of wrongful acts and conclusory allegations to support h[is] theory of a conspiracy,” were patently “insufficient to allow the case to go forward.”
  • finding that the plaintiff’s “laundry list of wrongful acts and conclusory allegations to support h[is] theory of a conspiracy,” were patently “insufficient to allow the case to go forward.”
  • dismissing plaintiff’s complaint because his “claims relating to alleged government surveillance and harassment are the type of ‘bizarre conspiracy theory’ that warrant dismissal under Rule 12(b)(1
  • finding plaintiff’s allegations of government surveillance and harassment to be “the type of bizarre conspiracy theory that warrant[s] dismissal under Rule 12(b)(1)” (internal citation and quotation marks omitted)

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Judges: Paul L. Friedman

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