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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

GEORGIA MILES,

Plaintiff,

v.

PATRICE PETERSEN, et al.,

Defendants.

No. 2:20-cv-0807 TLN KJN P

ORDER

Plaintiff, a former Plumas County jail inmate, proceeding pro se, filed a civil rights action 

pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff has not, however, filed an in forma pauperis affidavit or 

paid the required filing fee of $350.00 plus the $50.00 administrative fee.1 See 28 U.S.C. 

§§ 1914(a), 1915(a). Therefore, plaintiff is provided the opportunity either to submit the 

appropriate affidavit in support of a request to proceed in forma pauperis or to submit the required 

fees totaling $400.00.

Plaintiff is cautioned that the in forma pauperis application form includes a section that 

must be completed by a jail or prison official, and the form must be accompanied by a certified

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 If leave to file in forma pauperis is granted, plaintiff will still be required to pay the filing fee 

but will be allowed to pay it in installments. Litigants proceeding in forma pauperis are not 

required to pay the $50.00 administrative fee.

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copy of plaintiff’s inmate trust account statement for the six-month period immediately preceding 

the filing of this action.

In accordance with the above, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. Plaintiff shall submit, within thirty days from the date of this order, an affidavit in 

support of his request to proceed in forma pauperis on the form provided by the Clerk of Court, or 

the required fees in the amount of $400.00; plaintiff’s failure to comply with this order will result 

in a recommendation that this action be dismissed; and

2. The Clerk of the Court is directed to send plaintiff an Application to Proceed In Forma 

Pauperis By a Prisoner.

Dated: June 3, 2020

/mile0807.3a

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