According to the documents, Joe is seeking "$73,840,000.00 in damages and an additional $15,000,000.00 for false arrest, false imprisonment, discrimination, malicious prosecution, selective enforcement, misinterpreting the law and the death of [his

According to the documents, Joe is seeking "$73,840,000.00 in damages and an additional $15,000,000.00 for false arrest, false imprisonment, discrimination, malicious prosecution, selective enforcement, misinterpreting the law and the death of [his mother] Shirley Schreibvogel."

The judge writes in his recommendation that Joe does not have an attorney, adding that his complaint "[failed] to cite proper legal authority" and had a "confusion of various legal theories," "poor syntax and sentence construction." He recommends Joe re-submit the case as a habeas corpus proceeding, and argues that the civil case cannot be heard until his criminal appeal proceeds.

Joe is currently appealing his 2019 conviction for killing five tigers at his Oklahoma zoo and attempting to execute a murder-for-hire plot against wildlife conservationist Carole Baskin.

In a recent interview with Netflix from behind bars, Joe said, "It's now time to turn the tables and Joe get out of jail a free man and exonerated from all these charges."