Phillips

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 DEMETRIUS PHILLIPS, Case No. 25-cv-07231-JD

Plaintiffs,

SECOND ORDER RE DISMISSAL

v.

FRANCHISE TAX BOARD, et al., Defendants.

12 The Court denied a temporary restraining order request by plaintiff Demetrius Phillips, Dkt. No. 22, and dismissed his complaint with leave to amend, Dkt. No. 29. Dismissal was warranted because the complaint was an inchoate and largely incomprehensible series of statements that did not rise to the level of a plausible claim of any sort even when read generously for a pro se litigant. See id. at 1-2. Phillips filed an amended complaint, Dkt. No. 30, which did not improve the situation. The amended complaint says that Phillips is a “Private Man, non-legal entity, non-resident” and mentions California vehicle registration requirements. Id. at 1-2. The amended complaint says that California may not regulate “the free movement of non-commercial activities of Private Man,” and that California “has no lawful authority to enforce a fee…