In re Wentworth Civil Rights Cases
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 IN RE WENTWORTH CIVIL RIGHTS No. 21-cv-00757-BAS-AGS
CASES,
ORDER DECLARING DAWN
WENTWORTH A VEXATIOUS
LITIGANT
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On April 4, 2022, the Court issued a Tentative Order Declaring Dawn Wentworth a Vexatious Litigant. (ECF No. 22.) The Court held a hearing on the Tentative Order, at which Ms. Wentworth appeared. (ECF No. 25.) For the following reasons, the Court confirms its tentative order and declares Ms. Wentworth a vexatious litigant for these consolidated civil rights cases. I. Background On April 16, 2021, Ms. Dawn Wentworth, on her own behalf and on behalf of her two children, Yaw Appiah, and Journee Hudson, filed seventy-four civil rights complaints in this federal district court. Many of the complaints were duplicative; they sued the same defendants based on the same allegations. On June 16, 2021, she added one more case with duplicative allegations. The listed basis of federal jurisdiction in all seventy-five of these cases…