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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

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UMAR SHAHID,

Plaintiff,

v.

I. ALDAZ et al.,

Defendants.

No. 2:14-cv-0454 DAD P

ORDER

Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se. Plaintiff seeks relief pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 

§ 1983 and has requested leave to proceed in forma pauperis pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915. This 

proceeding was referred to this court by Local Rule 302 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1).

Plaintiff has submitted a declaration that makes the showing required by 28 U.S.C. § 

1915(a). Accordingly, the request to proceed in forma pauperis will be granted. 

Plaintiff is required to pay the statutory filing fee of $350.00 for this action. 28 U.S.C. §§ 

1914(a), 1915(b)(1). By this order, plaintiff will be assessed an initial partial filing fee in 

accordance with the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(1). By separate order, the court will direct 

the appropriate agency to collect the initial partial filing fee from plaintiff’s trust account and 

forward it to the Clerk of the Court. Thereafter, plaintiff will be obligated for monthly payments 

of twenty percent of the preceding month’s income credited to plaintiff’s prison trust account. 

These payments will be forwarded by the appropriate agency to the Clerk of the Court each time 

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the amount in plaintiff’s account exceeds $10.00, until the filing fee is paid in full. 28 U.S.C. § 

1915(b)(2).

On February 10, 2014, plaintiff commenced this action by filing a civil rights complaint. 

Before the court had an opportunity to screen his complaint, plaintiff filed a motion to amend his 

complaint to clarify that he has in fact exhausted his administrative remedies and to add an 

additional defendant and claim(s). Where, as here, the court has not ordered service of plaintiff’s 

original complaint, he is entitled to amend his complaint once as a matter of right. See Fed. R. 

Civ. P. 15(a). Accordingly, the court will deny plaintiff’s motion to amend as unnecessary and 

direct plaintiff to file an amended complaint that contains all of the claims he wishes to proceed 

on in this action within thirty days. 

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

1. Plaintiff’s request for leave to proceed in forma pauperis (Doc. No. 3) is granted.

2. Plaintiff is obligated to pay the statutory filing fee of $350.00 for this action. Plaintiff 

is assessed an initial partial filing fee in accordance with the provisions of 28 U.S.C. 

§ 1915(b)(1). All fees shall be collected and paid in accordance with this court’s order to the 

Director of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation filed concurrently 

herewith.

3. Plaintiff’s motion to amend (Doc. No. 4) is denied as unnecessary; 

4. Within thirty days of the date of service of this order, plaintiff shall file an amended 

complaint containing all of the claims he wishes to proceed on in this action. The amended 

complaint must comply with the requirements of the Civil Rights Act, the Federal Rules of Civil 

Procedure, and the Local Rules of Practice. The amended complaint must bear the docket 

number assigned to this case and must be labeled “Amended Complaint.” Failure to file an 

amended complaint in accordance with this order will result in a recommendation that this action 

be dismissed without prejudice.

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5. The Clerk of the Court is directed to send plaintiff the court’s form for filing a civil 

rights action.

Dated: March 5, 2014

DAD:9

shah0454.mta

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