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D'Cruz v. Annan

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Apr 18, 2007
223 F. App'x 42 (2d Cir. 2007)

Opinion

No. 06-2353-cv.

April 18, 2007.

Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Denny Chin, Judge).

UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the judgment of the District Court is AFFIRMED.

Cleophus A. D'Cruz, pro se, for Appellant.

Larry D. Johnson, Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, United Nations, New York, NY, for Appellee.

PRESENT: RALPH K. WINTER, JOSE A. CABRANES and PETER W. HALL, Circuit Judges.


SUMMARY ORDER

Plaintiff Cleophus D'Cruz appeals pro se from a decision of the District Court dismissing sua sponte his complaint against Kofi Annan and the United Nations organization, and other UN officials. We assume the parties' familiarity with the facts, the issues on appeal and the procedural history.

Having carefully reviewed all of plaintiffs arguments, we affirm the District Court's decision for substantially the same reasons set forth in the decision of the District Court. Insofar as plaintiff argues that the District Court's sua sponte dismissal of his complaint violated his due process rights, his argument is without merit, as the District Court has the authority to dismiss a frivolous complaint sua sponte. See Fitzgerald v. First E. Seventh St. Tenants Corp., 221 F.3d 362, 364 (2d Cir. 2000).

We have considered all of plaintiffs arguments on appeal and find them to be without merit. Accordingly, we hereby AFFIRM the judgment of the District Court.


Summaries of

D'Cruz v. Annan

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Apr 18, 2007
223 F. App'x 42 (2d Cir. 2007)
Case details for

D'Cruz v. Annan

Case Details

Full title:Cleophus A. D'CRUZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kofi ANNAN, Other Officials…

Court:United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Date published: Apr 18, 2007

Citations

223 F. App'x 42 (2d Cir. 2007)

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