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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHRISTIAN BLACKMON, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. 26-03169 (UNA) ) ) SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL, ) ) Defendant. ) MEMORANDUM OPINION Plaintiff, appearing pro se, has filed a form Complaint for a Civil Case and an application to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP). For the following reasons, the Court grants the IFP application and dismisses the complaint. Plaintiff sues Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., for $4 billion. In the section designated for stating a claim, Plaintiff writes only discrimination. In the relief section, Plaintiff writes only malpractice. Although pro se complaints are held to less stringent standards than those applied to formal pleadings drafted by lawyers, Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519, 520 (1972), they must comport with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Jarrell v. Tisch, 656 F. Supp. 237, 239 (D.D.C. 1987). Rule 8(a) requires that a complaint contain a short and plain statement of (1) the grounds for the court’s jurisdiction, (2) the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief, and (3) the relief demanded. Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a). It “does not require detailed factual allegations, but it demands more than an unadorned, the-defendant-unlawfully-harmed-me accusation.” Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009) (cleaned up). The pleader must allege enough facts to permit a court “to infer more than the mere possibility of misconduct.” Brown v. Whole Foods Mkt. Grp., 789 F.3d 146, 150 (D.C. Cir. 2015) (cleaned up). Plaintiff has not pleaded the basis of federal court jurisdiction and alleged facts to provide “fair notice” of the claims and “the grounds upon which [they] rest.” Jones v. Kirchner, 835 F.3d 74, 79 (D.C. Cir. 2016) (quoting Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 555 (2007)). Therefore, this case will be dismissed by separate order. TREVOR N. McFADDEN Date: October 28, 2026 United States District Judge 2