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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983pr Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOSEPH ALLDREDGE, P-82108,

Plaintiff,

v.

KLINTON, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No.: 16-CV-1918 JLS (JLB)

ORDER DISMISSING CIVIL 

ACTION WITHOUT PREJUDICE 

FOR FAILING TO PAY FILING FEE 

REQUIRED BY 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a) 

AND/OR FAILING TO MOVE TO 

PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS

PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)

(ECF No. 1)

Plaintiff Joseph Alldredge, currently incarcerated at Kern Valley State Prison

located in Delano, California and proceeding pro se, has filed a civil rights complaint 

pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. (Compl., ECF No. 1.)

All parties instituting any civil action, suit, or proceeding in a district court of the 

United States, except an application for writ of habeas corpus, must pay a filing fee of 

$400.1 See 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a). An action may proceed despite a plaintiff’s failure to 

 

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 In addition to the $350 statutory fee, civil litigants must pay an additional administrative fee of $50. 

See 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a) (Judicial Conference Schedule of Fees, District Court Misc. Fee Schedule, § 14 

(eff. Dec. 1, 2014). The additional $50 administrative fee does not apply to persons granted leave to 

proceed IFP. Id.

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prepay the entire fee only if he is granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP) pursuant 

to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a). See Andrews v. Cervantes, 493 F.3d 1047, 1051 (9th Cir. 2007); 

Rodriguez v. Cook, 169 F.3d 1176, 1177 (9th Cir. 1999). However, if the Plaintiff is a 

prisoner, and even if he is granted leave to commence his suit IFP, he remains obligated to 

pay the entire filing fee in “increments,” see Williams v. Paramo, 775 F.3d 1182, 1185 (9th 

Cir. 2015), regardless of whether his case is ultimately dismissed, see 28 U.S.C. 

§ 1915(b)(1) & (2); Taylor v. Delatoore, 281 F.3d 844, 847 (9th Cir. 2002).

Plaintiff has not prepaid the $400 in filing and administrative fees required to 

commence this civil action, nor has he submitted a properly supported Motion to Proceed 

IFP pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a). Therefore, his case cannot yet proceed. See 28 

U.S.C. § 1914(a); Andrews, 493 F.3d at 1051.

CONCLUSION

For the reasons set forth above, the Court hereby:

(1) DISMISSES WITHOUT PREJUDICE this action sua sponte for failure to 

pay the $400 civil filing and administrative fee or to submit a Motion to Proceed IFP 

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1914(a) and 1915(a).

(2) GRANTS Plaintiff forty-five (45) days leave from the date this Order is filed 

to: (a) prepay the entire $400 civil filing and administrative 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. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(2); 

Civ. L.R. 3.2(b). If Plaintiff fails to either prepay the $400 civil filing fee or complete and 

submit the enclosed Motion to Proceed IFP within 45 days, this action will remain 

dismissed without prejudice based on Plaintiff’s failure to satisfy 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a)’s fee 

requirements and without further Order of the Court.

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(3) ORDERS the Clerk of the Court to provide Plaintiff with this Court’s 

approved form “Motion and Declaration in Support of Motion to Proceed In Forma 

Pauperis.”

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 11, 2016

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