Frederick Banks v. Central Intelligence Agency

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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

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