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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

JOHNNIE GARRETT

N-20411,

Plaintiff,

v.

PEOPLE OF STATE OF ILLINOIS; 

UNNAMED LAWYERS; WARDEN; 

SHERIFF,

Defendants.

Case No.: 3:17-cv-02026-LAB-PCL

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)

JOHNNIE GARRETT (“Plaintiff”), currently incarcerated at Pickneyville 

Correctional Center located in Pickneyville, Illinois, and proceeding pro se, 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 

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$400. See 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a).1 An action may proceed despite a plaintiff’s failure to 

prepay the entire fee only if he is granted leave to proceed 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 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)(1) 

& (2); Taylor v. Delatoore, 281 F.3d 844, 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) DISMISSES 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. CivLR 3.2(b).

 

1 In addition to the $350 statutory fee, civil litigants must pay an additional administrative fee of $50. 

See 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a) (Judicial Conference Schedule of Fees, District Court Misc. Fee Schedule, § 14 

(eff. Dec. 1, 2014). The additional $50 administrative fee does not apply to persons granted leave to 

proceed IFP. Id.

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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 Plaintiff’s failure to satisfy 28 U.S.C. 

§ 1914(a)’s fee requirements and without further Order of the Court.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: October 13, 2017

Hon. Larry Alan Burns

United States District Judge

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