District Judge Stephen McGlynn dismissed a rabbi’s generalized lawsuits against “Naziism in America” and the Ku Klux Klan, concluding that he filed “frivolous and redundant” claims and gave him a sanction warning for wasting the court’s “limited and valuable resources.”
Plaintiff Rabbi K. Garth Richardson filed a series of three lawsuits against the United States District Court, Attorney General Merrick Garland, “Naziism in America” and the Ku Klux Klan.
McGlynn wrote in his Nov. 15 order that Richardson’s complaints include a summation of the history of the Nazi party and the Ku Klux Klan.
In his lawsuits, Richardson also asserts a deprivation of his rights. While he does allege a generalized deprivation of his rights under color of law, he does not address how a private plaintiff may bring a civil cause of action under the statute or how it creates such a right of action.
“Nothing in these filings brings a cognizable case or controversy before this court to address,” McGlynn wrote.
McGlynn wrote that because Richardson filed repeated frivolous lawsuits, he is not required to allow the plaintiff leave to refile an amended complaint.
“The court is not required to allow frivolous litigation to bog down the judiciary,” he wrote.
“In fact, Richardson should be warned that he is walking on a razor’s edge by filing complaints like these,” McGlynn added. “The United States Supreme Court has gone so far in the past as to ban pro se litigants from making future filings where they have exhibited a pattern of frivolous and redundant litigious conduct.”
McGlynn also gave Richardson an additional sanction warning, writing that the plaintiff has “forced the court to waste its limited and valuable resources reviewing his indecipherable filings and contemplating what to do with them. Litigants with legitimate claims and defenses are left to bear the burden of the resulting delays.”
“The court now warns Richardson that if he again files a frivolous lawsuit, the court will impose an appropriate financial sanction … and will bar him from filing anything more until he pays that sanction,” McGlynn wrote.
In addition to his complaints, Richardson filed motions to proceed in forma pauperis, which allows for a civil case to proceed without prepayment of fees if the movant provides a statement of his assets and shows he is unable to pay. McGlynn wrote that Richardson failed to satisfy the requirement by failing to fully itemize his monthly expenditures.
McGlynn denied Richardson’s motions to proceed in forma pauperis and dismissed the complaints with prejudice.
Richardson filed his complaints on Oct. 13 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. The lawsuits were signed by RIchardson, but they named Rabbi K. A. Israel and Rabbi Kohen Cohen Cohain Gadol as co-plaintiffs.
The lawsuits accuse the courts of denying Richardson the right to bring federal lawsuits, but they do not provide information about any previous litigation.
“Except prejudiced judges themselves, no threat to any judge, or judges, in this court, only those whom saw the value in terminating my court-case-filing-rights!!! The guilty, with all of the goods of society secured to/for themselves!!! That was their profits, in cash is best!!!,” the plaintiff wrote.
“But, you judges have something in your possession that naturally, intrinsically, wholly belongs to me!!! My rights to make you see and respect me, and no weapons, as a remedy to your creating calamity!!! How could they possibly be so crude, so inhumane, for their delight, to make them seem so superior, superior in their own eyes, to themselves, just because!!!” he added.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois case number 3:21-cv-1254, 1255, and 1256