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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 

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

YOUNG YIL JO, 

BOP #01183-112, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

SIX UNKNOWN NAMES AGENTS; 

BARACK OBAMA, President ofthe United 

States, 

Defendants. 

Civil No. 13cv0393 BEN (KSC) 

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 PROCEED 

IN FORMA PAUPERIS 

PURSUANT TO 

28 U.S.C. § 1915(a) 

Plaintiff, a Federal Bureau ofPrisons inmate currently incarcerated at CI Big Spring, 

located in Big Spring, Texas, and proceeding pro se, has filed an illegible one-page complaint 

entitled "Civil Rights Action with the Writ of Summons and Complaint" "under 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 any district court of the 

United States, except an application for writ ofhabeas corpus, must pay a filing fee of$3 50. See 

28 U.S.C. § 1914(a). An action may proceed despite a party's failure to pay this filing fee only 

if the party is granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis ("IFP") pursuant to 28 U.S.c. 

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§ 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). 

Plaintiffhas not prepaid the $350 filing fee required to commence a civil action, nor has 

he submitted a Motion to Proceed IFP pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a). Therefore, the 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) DISMISSES this action sua sponte without prejudice for failing to pay the $350 

filing fee or file a Motion to Proceed IFP pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1914(a) and 1915(a); and 

(2) 	 GRANTS Plaintiffforty five (45) days leave from the date this Order is filed to: 

(a) prepay the entire $350 civil filing 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. ClvLR 3.2(b).1 

IT IS FURTHERORDEREDthat the Clerk ofthe Court shall provide Plaintiff with this 

Court's approved form "Motion and Declaration in Support of Motion to Proceed In Forma 

Pauperis." IfPlaintiff fails to either prepay the $350 civil filing fee or complete and submit the 

enclosed Motion to Proceed IFP within that time, this action shall remain dismissed without 

prejudice and without rder of the Court. 

DATED: --~~~~~~--

I Plaintiff is cautioned that ifhe chooses to proceed further with this action either by paying the 

full civil filing fee required by 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a), or moving to proceed IFP, his Complaint, which is 

currently comprised ofa single illegible paragraph ofincomprehensible legal jargon seeking unspecified 

relief against unidentified "agents" and the President of the United States, will be screened and 

immediately dismissed as frivolous pursuant to 28 U.S.c. § 1915A(b) and 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(b). 

See Lopez v. Smith, 203 F.3d 1122, 1126-27 (9th Cir. 2000) (en banc) (noting that 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e) 

"not only permits but requires" the court to sua sponte dismiss an informa pauperis complaint that fails 

to state a claim); see also Rhodes v. Robinson, 621 F.3d 1002, 1004 (9th Cir. 2010) (discussing sua 

sponte screening required by 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(b) of all prisoner complaints). 

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