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Nature of Suit Code: 864
Nature of Suit: Social Security - SSID Title XVI
Cause of Action: 42:205 Denial Social Security Benefits

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

R.P. BY AND THROUGH HER 

GUARDIAN AD LITEM TRACIE 

PEREZ, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

CAROLYN W. COLVIN, Acting 

Commissioner of Social Security, 

Defendant. 

No. 2:15-cv-1366 AC 

ORDER 

 Plaintiff has requested authority under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 to proceed in forma pauperis. 

Plaintiff has submitted the affidavit required by § 1915(a) showing that plaintiff is unable to 

prepay fees and costs or give security for them. Accordingly, the request to proceed in forma 

pauperis will be granted. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a). 

 Plaintiff has also petitioned for the appointment of her mother, Tracie Perez, to be her 

guardian ad litem. ECF No. 3. Plaintiff is alleged to have been born in 1999, and therefore is 

under eighteen years of age, a minor under California law. See ECF No. 3 ¶ 1; Cal. Fam. Code § 

6500 (“A minor is an individual who is under 18 years of age”). Perez is alleged to have custody 

of R.P., to be willing and fully competent to serve as R.P.’s guardian ad litem, and to have no 

conflict of interest with R.P. See ECF No. 3 ¶¶ 2 & 5. 

 The court will therefore appoint Tracie Perez as R.P.’s guardian ad litem, to protect her 

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interests in this lawsuit, pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 17(c)(2). See Davis v. Walker, 745 F.3d 

1303, 1310 (9th Cir. 2014) (the purpose of Rule 17(c) is to protect the minor or incompetent 

person's interests in prosecuting or defending a lawsuit); Fed. R. Civ. P. 17(b)(1) (capacity to sue 

is determined by the law of plaintiff’s domicile); Cal. Fam. Code § 6601 (minor can only sue by 

guardian ad litem). 

 In accordance with the above, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 

 1. Plaintiff's request to proceed in forma pauperis (ECF No. 2), is GRANTED. 

 2. Plaintiff’s petition for appointment of Tracie Perez to be her guardian ad litem (ECF 

No. 3), is GRANTED. 

 3. The Clerk of the Court is directed to serve the undersigned’s scheduling order in social 

security cases. 

 4. The Clerk of the Court is further directed to serve a copy of this order on the United 

States Marshal. 

 5. Within fourteen days from the date of this order, plaintiff shall submit to the United 

States Marshal a completed summons and copies of the complaint and file a statement with the 

court that said documents have been submitted to the United States Marshal. 

 6. The United States Marshal is directed to serve all process without prepayment of costs 

not later than sixty days from the date of this order. Service of process shall be completed by 

delivering a copy of the summons and complaint to the United States Attorney for the Eastern 

District of California, and by sending a copy of the summons and complaint by registered or 

certified mail to the Attorney General of the United States at Washington, D.C. See Fed. R. Civ. 

P. 4(i)(1)(A) & (B). The Marshal shall also send a copy of the summons and complaint by 

registered or certified mail to the Commissioner of Social Security, c/o Office of General 

Counsel, Region IX, 160 Spear Street, Suite 800, San Francisco, CA 94105-1545. See Fed. R. 

Civ. P. 4(i)(2). 

DATED: July 12, 2015 

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