CHICAGO, IL – The Court dismissed an appeal from Matthew Jones, who sued the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, claiming court employees attacked him and caused injuries totaling $1 trillion in medical costs.
Jones filed the lawsuit under a criminal statute not applicable to civil suits, and the district court had dismissed the case for lack of standing and sovereign immunity. On appeal, the Court noted that Jones’s brief did not address those issues and failed to comply with federal rules for legal arguments.
Judges cited his history of filing similar frivolous lawsuits in federal and state courts across the country and warned him that further baseless filings could lead to sanctions, fines, and a potential bar from submitting future cases.
