Frederick Banks v. Central Intelligence Agency

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10

11 KOBE BRYANT; FREDERICK Case No. 2:20-cv-01138-ODW (GJS) BANKS, individually and as “next 12 friend” thereto & his Estate, ORDER DISMISSING PETITION 13 Petitioners 14 v.

15 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, et al., 16 Respondents. 17 18 19 On February 4, 2020, a putative 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habeas petition was filed in 20 this District [Dkt. 1, “Petition”]. The Petition was filed by Frederick Banks, a 21 convicted criminal incarcerated in Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh, 22 Pennsylvania. The named Petitioners are Banks and the recently deceased Kobe 23 Bryant; Banks purports to be acting as “next friend” on behalf of both Mr. Bryant 24 and his estate, as well as to seek individual relief on Banks’s own behalf. The only 25 person who has signed the Petition is Banks, who mailed the Petition to the Court 26 from Allegheny County Jail and who seeks leave to proceed on an in forma pauperis 27 basis. 28 The Petition names as Respondents: the Central Intelligence agency (“CIA”); 1 “Warden”; the…