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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JAMES E. CRITTENDEN,

Plaintiff,

v.

GOV. BROWN,

Defendant.

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Case No. 1:15-cv-01228-AWI-SKO (PC)

ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR 

RECONSIDERATION, WITH PREJUDICE

(Doc. 6)

Plaintiff James E. Crittenden, # AW5901, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, filed this civil 

rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on August 10, 2015, and the action was dismissed on 

August 14, 2015, without prejudice to refiling accompanied by the $400.00 filing fee. 28 U.S.C. § 

1915(g). On September 14, 2015, Plaintiff filed a motion for reconsideration.

Plaintiff asserts that he was not incarcerated for five or more years prior to bringing this 

lawsuit, and he requests that the Court take that fact and his indigency into consideration. Plaintiff 

brought four lawsuits in 2002 and 2004 while he was incarcerated and the subsequent dismissals 

count as “strikes” under § 1915(g).1 Even if Plaintiff was out of custody for a number of years 

between filing those lawsuits and the present lawsuit, the three strikes provision set forth in 

section 1915(g) continues to apply to this and any other federal lawsuit he brings while 

 

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Plaintiff’s prior prison identification number was H08674.

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incarcerated. Andrews v. King, 398 F.3d 1113, 1122 (9th Cir. 2005). Plaintiff’s indigency is 

irrelevant to the inquiry.

Accordingly, because Plaintiff is barred under section 1915(g) from bringing this lawsuit 

in forma pauperis, his motion for reconsideration is HEREBY DENIED, with prejudice.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 6, 2015 

 SENIOR DISTRICT JUDGE

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