Maceo Williams v. Judge Brian C. Wimes, Jr., et al

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In the
United States Court of Appeals
For the Eleventh Circuit
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No. 23-12437
Non-Argument Calendar
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MACEO WILLIAMS,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
versus
JUDGE BRIAN C. WIMES, JR.,
CIA,
JOHN DOE,
MARTA,
JANE DOE,
SALVATION ARMY,
CHANDRA TRIMBTE,
Defendants-Appellees.
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Georgia
D.C. Docket No. 1:23-cv-01457-VMC
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Before WILSON, L UCK , and TJOFLAT, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:
Maceo Williams, proceeding pro se, appeals the District
Court’s dismissal of his complaint with prejudice. The complaint
invoked the court’s federal question jurisdiction, 28 U.S.C. § 1331,
to allege a First Amendment free exercise claim against a federal
district judge and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the
court’s supplemental jurisdiction, 28 U.S.C. § 1367, to allege a state
law tort claim against the Salvation Army, Chandra Trimbte, and
several John and Jane Does. The District Court dismissed the fed-
eral question claims as frivolous under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(i),
and the supplemental claim because it believed that claim more
properly belonged in state court.
Williams now appeals the judgment. We affirm the dismis-
sal of the § 1331 claims and § 1367 claim and instruct the District
Court on receipt of our mandate to revise the judgment dismissing
the § 1367 claim without prejudice.
We affirm the District Court’s judgment regarding the
§ 1331 claims because they are frivolous; thus, the court did not
abuse its discretion in dismissing them. The federal claims are
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conclusory. They are that the district judge and the CIA combined
to destroy his religious journey (which the complaint does not de-
scribe) through “intense anti-Semitic Satanism.” They intended to
“stop[ him] from praying to Jesus Christ, Adonai, Hashem, or any
[O]thodox [J]ewish God name, preventing him from exercising his
First Amendment rights. The complaint is devoid of conduct to
that end.
As for Williams’s state law tort claim, the District Court was
within its discretion to dismiss it once the federal claims were dis-
missed. See Silas v. Sheriff of Broward Cnty., 55 F.4th 863, 866 (11th
Cir. 2022) (“A district court . . . will rarely err by declining supple-
mental jurisdiction after the federal claims that supported its juris-
diction are dismissed.”). We instruct the District Court on receipt
of our mandate to amend its judgment to reflect the dismissal of
those claims without prejudice.
AFFIRMED and REMANDED with instructions to enter
dismissal without prejudice.
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