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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

WINSTON KEMPER,

Plaintiff,

v.

DR. PIE, et al.,

Defendants.

No. 2:14-cv-0305 KJN P

ORDER

Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel. Plaintiff consented to proceed 

before the undersigned for all purposes. See 28 U.S.C. § 636(c). After the instant action was 

transferred to this court from the Northern District, plaintiff was ordered to file an affidavit in 

support of a request to proceed in forma pauperis, or pay the required filing fee. (ECF No. 10.) 

Subsequently, plaintiff filed a letter indicating he has tried to pay the filing fee several times, and 

stated he enclosed one more trust withdrawal slip for the $400 filing fee. (ECF No. 12.) 

On December 6, 2013, plaintiff sent a $400 withdrawal slip to the Northern District. 

(ECF No. 4.) On December 20, 2013, plaintiff sent another withdrawal slip to the Northern 

District. (ECF No. 6.) The court has confirmed that the Northern District did not receive 

payment. Plaintiff provided another withdrawal slip with his recent filing. (ECF No. 12 at 2.) 

It appears that plaintiff is under the misapprehension that his trust account withdrawal 

form must be submitted to the court. However, plaintiff is mistaken. The court does not have 

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access to plaintiff’s trust account. The form plaintiff completed is entitled “Trust Account 

Withdrawal Order,” and is addressed to the “Warden or Superintendent.” (ECF No. 1 at 2.) 

Plaintiff must present this withdrawal form to the appropriate prison official so that the prison 

official will deduct these funds from plaintiff’s trust account and forward the $400.00 to the court. 

There are prison procedures in place that plaintiff must follow to accomplish this task; if plaintiff 

is unaware of the appropriate prison official to which to present the withdrawal form, he should 

ask someone for assistance. 

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff is granted thirty days in which to 

pay the $400.00 filing fee; plaintiff’s failure to comply with this order will result in the dismissal 

of this action.

Dated: May 5, 2014

/kemp0305.eot

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