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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 

DAVID BENNETT, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., 

Defendants. 

No. 2:24-cv-00005-DAD-EFB (PC) 

ORDER 

 Plaintiff, a 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 $55.00 administrative fee.1

 See 28 U.S.C. §§ 1914(a), 

1915(a). 

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 $405.00. Plaintiff’s 

complaint alleges that jail officials have frustrated his ability to submit an in forma pauperis 

application or the filing fee in two other federal actions he has brought. ECF No. 1. If plaintiff 

faces similar issues in this action, he may request that the court take judicial notice of his in forma 

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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 $55.00 administrative fee. 

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pauperis applications submitted in another action, as was done by the court in David Bennett v. 

Monroe Detention Center, et al., E.D. Cal. Case No. 2:22-cv-02157-DP (judicially noticing 

application in Bennett v. Newsom, 2:23-cv-00040-DAD-CKD P and granting in forma pauperis 

status based thereon) or submit a notice to the court containing facts showing the steps he has 

taken to either file an in forma pauperis application or pay the filing fee and the reasons why he 

has been unable to do so. 

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

must be completed by a jail official, and the form must be accompanied by a certified copy of 

plaintiff’s 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, 

the required fees in the amount of $405.00, or the notice described above detailing steps taken to 

submit the application or fees; 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 a new Application to Proceed In 

Forma Pauperis By a Prisoner. 

Dated: May 14, 2024 

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