Storey
Storey v. Marin County Sheriff Department
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SHERRI STOREY, Case No. 22-cv-03939-AGT
Plaintiff,
SCREENING ORDER
v.
MARIN COUNTY SHERIFF
DEPARTMENT,
Defendant.
Having granted Sherri Storey’s application to proceed in forma pauperis, the undersigned now screens her complaint under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B). Storey seeks a writ of mandamus. The writ would require the Marin County Sheriff’s Department to report to the FBI that Steve A. Frankel is possibly the Zo- diac serial killer and has mentally and physically harmed Storey. See Dkt. 1 ¶¶ 6– 8, 49–50; Dkt. 1-1 at 1. The writ would also require the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute Frankel. See Dkt. 6 ¶¶ 1–7, 19–20, 27, 38–39. The Court cannot grant the relief that Storey seeks. First, a “district court lack[s] jurisdiction to grant mandamus relief against state officers.” Reiner v. Cal- ifornia, 612 F. App’x 473, 474 (9th Cir. 2015). For this reason, the Court cannot issue a writ to compel Marin County to contact the FBI. See also Taylor v. Cal. Dep’t of Just., No. C 08-04776 CW, 2009 WL 1814421, at *1 (N.D. Cal. June 23, 2009) (“Federal courts are without power to issue…