TransUnion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Alvin James SMITH, Case No.: 24-cv-1727-AGS-DTF Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S

MOTION TO DISMISS (ECF 6)

v. TRANSUNION, Defendant. 8 Plaintiff “ALVIN SMITH,” which is “the captured named for Alvin-James: Smith” who is a “man and living being with blood flowing in body,” has sued defendant credit reporting agency TransUnion under several theories. (See ECF 4, at 1.) A complaint in federal court, though, must “give the defendant fair notice of what the claim is and the grounds upon which it rests.” Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 555 (2007) (cleaned up). Smith’s complaint doesn’t. So TransUnion’s motion to dismiss is granted. BACKGROUND Shorn of its legal conclusions and sovereign-citizen dogma,1 Smith’s complaint claims TransUnion is a “nationwide consumer reporting agenc[y]” that “offers various 18 19 1 “Adherents of this [sovereign-citizen] conspiracy identify themselves as trustees 20 and executors…