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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS 
 
 
HARVEY C.,1 
Plaintiff, 
 
v. 
 
COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL 
SECURITY, Frank J. Bisignano,
2 
 
 Defendant. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER 
 
ROSENSTENGEL, District Judge: 
 This matter is before the Court on pro se Plaintiff Harvey C.’s newest filing, which 
he has titled “This is to reopen for resan’s [sic] of misconduct.” (Doc. 48). Last week, the 
Court denied Harvey’s previous frivolous motion to reopen this long-since closed case. 
(Doc. 44). As explained below, this frivolous motion is also denied. 
In his newest screed, Harvey continues to rail against this Court, the undersigned, 
Chief Judge Jeffrey U. Beaverstock of the Southern District of Alabama, the 
Commissioner of Social Security, and miscellaneous others. (Doc. 48). To give a brief 
flavor of his motion: among other things, Harvey insists that this Court has violated 
federal law and “lie[d] it [sic] ass off” to cover up fraud and refuse to enforce a 1999 court 
order. Id. at 2–3. He promises this Court is “goind [sic] down” because it “want’s [sic] to 
 
1 Plaintiff’s full name will not be used in this Me morandum and Order due to privacy concerns. See F ED. 
R. CIV. P. 5.2(c) and the Advisory Committee Notes thereto. 
2 Frank J. Bisignano is the current Commissioner of Social Security. See FED. R. CIV. P. 25(d). Page ID
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say what it did was leagl [sic] when was [sic] a bunch of hog whash [sic].” Id. at 3–4. (This 
is a theme with him.) (See Doc. 44, at 3, 6). He warns this Court to “hang on tight” because 
this Court has “violated so ma ny laws that it isn’t funny.” Id. at 3–4. He closes with a 
lament: 
I may not be able to lock you up judge NJR but I sure can get you kicked 
out of office interference in a federal case that you new [sic] you had no 
jurisdiction from the strat [sic] filed [sic] to uphold the summonses issued 
by the federal court’s [sic] of [Alabama] you have made a mockery of a 
federal case you and the Commisoner [sic]. 
Id. at 4. 
To borrow from Harvey, this is all hogwash. His ravings reveal a conspiratorial 
belief that this Court is trying to prevent him from reopening his case in the Southern 
District of Alabama. Nothing could be further from the truth. As far as this Court is 
concerned, Harvey is perfectly free to file a motion to reopen his case in the Southern 
District of Alabama. The undersigned is not stopping him. He simply cannot reopen this 
case in this District, for the reasons this Court already explained last week. (Doc. 44). After 
his case was transferred here, he refused to participate in the judicial process and willfully 
disobeyed Court orders. Accordingly, his case in this District was thrown out—three 
years ago. It is far too late to ask (or, more accurately, threaten) this Court to reopen it, 
even if his arguments about jurisdiction we ren’t obviously “fantast ic and delusional.” 
Dix v. Unknown TSA Agent No. 1 , 588 F. App’x 499, 499 (7th Cir. 2015) (citing Neitzke v. 
Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 327–28 (1989)). 
If Harvey wants to ask the Southern District of Alabama to reopen this case and 
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more than welcome to do so. This Court will not stop him. But he must stop wasting this
Court’s time with frivolous filings. He has already been warned twice. Enough is enough. 
If he files anything else in this case, he will face sanctions.
For these reasons, Plaintiff Harvey C.’s motion to reopen (Doc. 48) is DENIED.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
DATED: June 17, 2026
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NANCY J. ROSENSTENGEL
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