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

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

GARLAND AARON JONES, Case No.: 3:17-cv-01592-BEN- AGS 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

MRS. TISCORNIA, Librarian, 

Defendant. 

ORDER DISMISSING CIVIL 

ACTION WITHOUT PREJUDICE 

FOR FAILING TO PAY FILING FEE 

REQUIRED BY 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a) 

AND/OR FAILING TO MOVE TO 

FILE TO PROCEED IN FORMA 

PAUPERIS PURSUANT TO 

28 U.S.C. § 1915(a) 

GARLAND AARON JONES ("Plaintiff'), currently incarcerated at Richard J. 

Donovan Correctional Facility located in San Diego, California, and proceeding prose, 

has filed a civil rights complaint ("Compl.") pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (ECF No. 1 ). 

I. Failure to Pay Filing Fee or Request IFP Status 

All parties instituting any civil action, suit or proceeding in a district court of the 

United States, except an application for writ of habeas corpus, must pay a filing fee of 

$400. See 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a). An action may proceed despite a plaintiffs failure to 

prepay the entire fee only if he is granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis ("IFP") 

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a). See Andrews v. Cervantes, 493 F.3d 1047, 1051 (9th 

Cir. 2007); Rodriguez v. Cook, 169 F.3d 1176, 1177 (9th Cir. 1999). However, if the 

Plaintiff is a prisoner, and even if he is granted leave to commence his suit IFP, he 

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remains obligated to pay the entire filing fee in "increments," see Williams v. Paramo, 

775 F.3d 1182, 1185 (9th Cir. 2015), regardless of whether his case is ultimately 

dismissed. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(l) & (2); Taylor v. Delatoore, 281F.3d844, 847 

(9th Cir. 2002). 

Plaintiff has not prepaid the $400 in filing and administrative fees required to 

commence this civil action, nor has he submitted a properly supported Motion to Proceed 

IFP pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a). Therefore, his case cannot yet proceed. See 28 

U.S.C. § 1914(a); Andrews, 493 F.3d at 1051. 

II. Conclusion and Order 

For the reasons set forth above, the Court hereby: 

( 1) DIS MISSES this action sua sponte without prejudice for failure to pay the 

$400 civil filing and administrative fee or to submit a Motion to Proceed IFP pursuant to 

28 U.S.C. §§ 1914(a) and 1915(a); and 

(2) GRANTS Plaintiff forty-five (45) days leave from the date this Order is 

filed to: (a) prepay the entire $400 civil filing and administrative fee in full; or (b) 

complete and file a Motion to Proceed IFP which includes a certified copy of his trust 

account statement for the 6-month period preceding the filing of his Complaint. See 28 

U.S.C. § 1915(a)(2); S.D. Cal. CivLR3.2(b). 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court shall provide Plaintiff 

with this Court's approved form "Motion and Declaration in Support of Motion to 

Proceed In Forma Pauperis." If Plaintiff fails to either prepay the $400 civil filing fee or 

complete and submit the enclosed Motion to Proceed IFP within 45 days, this action will 

remain dismissed without prejudice based on Plaintiffs failure to satisfy 28 U.S.C. § 

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