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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

Plaintiff is a prisoner proceeding pro se in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983

and has requested leave to proceed in forma pauperis pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915. Plaintiff has made 

the showing required by § 1915(a) and the request to proceed in forma pauperis will be granted. 

Plaintiff is obligated to pay the statutory filing fee of $350.00 for this action. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(1). 

Plaintiff is obligated to make monthly payments in the amount of twenty percent of the preceding 

month’s income credited to Plaintiff’s trust account. The Sheriff of the Kern County Lerdo Max-Med 

Facility is required to send to the Clerk of the Court payments from Plaintiff’s account each time the 

amount in the account exceeds $10.00, until the statutory filing fee is paid in full. 28 U.S.C. § 

1915(b)(2). 

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MONICO J. QUIROGA,

 Plaintiff,

v.

C. CHAPA,

Defendant.

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Case No.: 1:16-cv-00071-SAB (PC)

ORDER GRANTING APPLICATION TO 

PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS AND 

DIRECTING PAYMENT OF INMATE FILING 

FEE BY KERN COUNTY SHERIFF’S 

DEPARTMENT

[ECF No. 7]

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In accordance with the above and good cause appearing therefore, it is HEREBY ORDERED 

that:

1. Plaintiff’s application to proceed in forma pauperis is GRANTED;

2. The Sheriff of the Kern County Lerdo Max-Med Facility or his designee shall

collect payments from Plaintiff’s prison trust account in an amount equal to 

twenty percent 20% of the preceding month’s income credited to the prisoner’s 

trust account and shall forward those payments to the Clerk of the Court each 

time the amount in the account exceeds $10.00, in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 

1915(b)(2), until a total of $350.00 has been collected and forwarded to the Clerk 

of the Court. The payments shall be clearly identified by the name and number 

assigned to this action.

3. The Clerk of the Court is directed to serve a copy of this order and a copy of Plaintiff’s 

in forma pauperis application on the Sheriff of the Kern County Lerdo Max-Med 

Facility, via the court’s electronic case filing system (CM/ECF).

4. The Clerk of the Court is directed to serve a copy of this order on the Financial 

Department, United States District Court, Eastern District of California, Sacramento 

Division. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 18, 2016 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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