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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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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WARDY EVANS, III, No. CIV S-09-3381-CMK-P

Plaintiff, 

vs. ORDER

WARDEN, et al.,

Defendants.

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Plaintiff, a prisoner proceeding pro se, brings this civil rights action pursuant to 42

U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff has consented to Magistrate Judge jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 

§ 636(c) and no other party has been served or appeared in the action. Pending before the court

is plaintiff’s document filed on April 12, 2010 (Doc. 10). 

The instant filing, which is hand-written in the margins of a notice from the court

dated December 7, 2009, appears to be a request for voluntary dismissal and request that the

court vacate it’s prior order directing prison officials to collect installment payments in order to

satisfy the filing fee. As to the latter request, plaintiff is advised that he is responsible for the

entire $350.00 filing fee regardless of whether this action is voluntarily dismissed or proceeds to

a disposition on the merits. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(1). 

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To the extent plaintiff seeks voluntary dismissal of this action, because no

response to the complaint has been filed, leave of court is not required and the action is dismissed

on plaintiff’s April 12, 2010, notice. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(A)(I). The Clerk of the Court

is directed to close this file. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: April 21, 2010

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CRAIG M. KELLISON

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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