Legal Opinion

Clarke v. United States

District Court, W.D. Tennessee

Decided May 8, 2025No. 2:25-cv-02083Unknown

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE WESTERN DIVISION RYAN CLARKE, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) No. 2:25-cv-02083-SHL-tmp ) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) ) Defendant. ) ORDER ADOPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION AND DISMISSING COMPLAINT Plaintiff Ryan Clarke filed a pro se complaint seeking monetary reparations for all descendants of enslaved people. (See generally ECF No. 2.) Chief Magistrate Judge Pham screened Clarke’s complaint under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)1 and recommended that it be dismissed for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. (ECF…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Ashcroft v. IqbalSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
  2. Thomas v. ArnSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  3. Eloise HOWARD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1991
  4. Vandiver v. MartinDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 2004
  5. In Re African-American Slave Descendants Litigation. Appeals of Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, and Timothy HurdleCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2006

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