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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 Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LARRY D. YOUNG,

Plaintiff,

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ALAMEDA COUNTY BOARD OF

SUPERVISORS, et al.,

Defendants. _______________________________ 

 

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No. C 06-3727 MMC (PR) 

ORDER DENYING MOTION

FOR FILING FEE EXEMPTION

AND FOR QUALIFIED

PROTECTIVE ORDER;

DIRECTING PLAINTIFF TO

PAY FILING FEE OR FILE IFP

APPLICATION

(Docket Nos. 2, 3 & 5)

Plaintiff, a California prisoner proceeding pro se, filed the above-titled civil rights

action on June 12, 2006. That same date, the Court notified plaintiff in writing that the action

was deficient due to his failure to pay the requisite filing fee or, instead, submit a completed

court-approved in forma pauperis (“IFP”) application. In said notice, plaintiff was advised

that his failure to pay the filing fee or, alternatively, to file a completed IFP application

within thirty days, would result in dismissal of the action. Along with said notice, plaintiff

was sent a copy of the Court’s IFP application, instructions for completing it, and a return

envelope. To date, plaintiff has neither paid the filing fee nor submitted a completed IFP

application.

 Instead, on June 12, 2006, and again on June 29, 2006, plaintiff filed a motion for an

“exemption” from filing fees. In said motion, plaintiff asserts that he is an involuntary civil

detainee, being held under California’s “Sexually Violent Predator Act” (“SVPA”), see Cal.

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Plaintiff need not complete the certificate of funds form or attach his trust account

statements, as required by the PLRA, and, if granted IFP status, he will not be required to pay

the filing fee in installments pursuant to the PLRA. See Page, 201 F.3d at 1139-40.

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Welfare & Inst. Code §§ 6600, et seq., and cites Page v. Torrey, 201 F.3d 1136, 1139-40 (9th

Cir. 2000). In Page, the Ninth Circuit held that the financial reporting and fee installment

requirements imposed by the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act (“PLRA”), see 28 U.S.C. §§

1915(a)(2),(b), apply only to “prisoners,” i.e., individuals who, at the time they seek to file

their civil actions, are detained as a result of being accused of, convicted of, or sentenced for

criminal offenses. Id. Individuals with civil commitments pursuant to the SVPA are not 

“prisoners” within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 1915. Id. Although plaintiff does not have to

comply with the financial reporting and fee installment requirements of the PLRA, nothing in

Page, or any other authority, exempts persons detained under the SVPA from paying court

filing fees. Every litigant in federal court, whether or not a prisoner, must either pay the

filing fee or alternatively, by completing an IFP application, demonstrate an inability to pay

such fee. 

Accordingly, within thirty days of the date this order is filed, plaintiff shall either pay

the filing fee or complete the court’s IFP application.1

 Plaintiff’s failure to do so will result

in dismissal of this action.

In addition to the above-referenced motion, plaintiff has filed a “motion for qualified

protective order.” This motion is based on rules of California civil procedure, which are not

applicable in federal court. Accordingly, the motion for such order is hereby DENIED. 

This order terminates Docket Nos. 2, 3 and 5. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: December 8, 2006 

MAXINE M. CHESNEY

United States District Judge

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