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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

Eastern District of California

Daniel J. Carpenter,

Plaintiff, No. Civ. S 05-2066 DFL PAN P

vs. Order

Arnold Schwartzenegger,

Defendant.

-oOoOctober 13, 2005, plaintiff, a prisoner at Mule Creek State

Prison, filed a request for leave to proceed in forma pauperis in

a civil rights action and a document styled, “Ex Parte Request to

File and Stay the Attached Complaint and Request for Temporary,

Injunctive, and Relief: Without Concurrent Service.”

To commence an action, plaintiff must file a complaint (see

Fed. R. Civ. P. 3) and pay the $250 filing fee or seek leave to

proceed in forma pauperis. See 28 U.S.C. §§ 1914(a), 1915(a). 

While plaintiff has filed an application for leave to proceed in 

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forma pauperis, he has not submitted a complaint. The court

cannot issue orders for relief until an action has been commenced

by filing a complaint. 

Accordingly, the court hereby orders that:

1. The Clerk of the Court shall send plaintiff the court’s

form for a civil rights action. 

2. Within 30 days, plaintiff shall lodge a complaint.

Otherwise this file will be closed.

Dated: January 24, 2006. 

 /s/ Peter A. Nowinski 

 PETER A. NOWINSKI

 Magistrate Judge

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