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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

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

EDWARD DWAYNE ASHFORD,

CDC #T-69591,

Civil No. 07-0147 JM (WMc)

Plaintiff,

ORDER DISMISSING CIVIL ACTION

FOR FAILING TO PAY FILING FEES

PURSUANT TO 

28 U.S.C. § 1914(a) AND FAILING 

TO MOVE TO PROCEED 

IN FORMA PAUPERIS

PURSUANT TO 

28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)

 vs.

JAMES TILTON, Secretary, Cal. Dept. of

Corrections & Rehabilitation; STUART J.

RYAN, Former Warden, Calipatria State

Prison; 

GEORGE G. GIURBINO, Former Warden,

Calipatria State Prison; LARRY E.

SCRIBNER, Warden, Calipatria State Prison,

Defendants.

 

Plaintiff, a state prisoner currently incarcerated at Calipatria State Prison (“CAL”), in Calipatria,

California, and proceeding pro se, has filed a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff

claims the Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”), and

several Wardens at CAL violated his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by subjecting him to

“numerous retaliatory racialized lockdowns.” (See Compl. ¶¶ 11, 21.) Plaintiff further alleges pendent

state law claims in violation of the California Constitition. (Id. ¶ 24.) Plaintiff seeks declaratory and

injunctive relief, as well as compensatory and punitive damages. (Id. at 15-16.) 

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I. Failure to Pay Filing Fee or Request IFP Status

Effective April 9, 2006, any party instituting a civil action, suit or proceeding in a district court

of the United States, other than a writ of habeas corpus, must pay a filing fee of $350. See 28 U.S.C.

§ 1914(a). An action may proceed despite a party’s failure to pay only if the party is granted leave to

proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”) pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a). See Rodriguez v. Cook, 169 F.3d

1176, 1177 (9th Cir. 1999). Plaintiff has not paid the $350 filing fee required to maintain this civil

action, nor has he submitted a motion to proceed IFP pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a). 

II. Conclusion and Order

For the reasons set forth above, the Court hereby:

(1) DISMISSES this action sua sponte without prejudice for failing to pay the $350 filing

fee or file 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 $350 civil filing 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 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(2) and S.D. CAL. CIVLR 3.2(b). 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that:

(3) the Clerk of the Court shall mail Plaintiff the Court’s approved form “Motion and

Declaration in Support of Motion to Proceed In Forma Pauperis,” along with a copy of this Order. If

Plaintiff fails to either prepay the $350 civil filing fee or complete and submit the Motion to Proceed

IFP provided to him within forty-five (45) days, this action shall remain dismissed without prejudice

and without further Order of the Court.

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: February 9, 2007

 Hon. Jeffrey T. Miller

 United States District Judge

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