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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

THO LE, 

BOP #A028080719,

Civil No. 13cv2829 LAB (MDD)

Plaintiff,

ORDER DISMISSING CIVIL

ACTION WITHOUT PREJUDICE

FOR FAILING TO PAY 

FILING FEES 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)

 vs.

SIX UNKNOWN NAMES AGENTS;

BARACK OBAMA, President of the

United States,

Defendants.

Plaintiff, currently detained at the Etowah County Jail in Gadsden, Alabama, and

proceeding pro se, filed an incomprehensible one-page complaint entitled “Civil Rights

Action with the Writ of Summons and Complaint” “under 42 U.S.C. § 1983” on

November 19, 2013 (ECF Doc. No. 1). 

I. FAILURE TO PAY FILING FEE OR REQUEST IFP STATUS

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

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

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of $400. See 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a). An action may proceed despite a party’s failure to

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pay this filing fee only if the party 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). 

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

commence a civil action, nor has he submitted a Motion to Proceed IFP pursuant to 28

U.S.C. § 1915(a). Therefore, the case cannot yet proceed. See 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a);

Andrews, 493 F.3d at 1051.

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

$400 civil filing and administrative fee or submit 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 $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); S.D. CAL. CIVLR 3.2(b).2

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 In addition to the $350 statutory fee, all parties filing civil actions on or after May 1, 1

2013, must pay an additional administrative fee of $50. See 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a), (b); Judicial

Conference Schedule of Fees, District Court Misc. Fee Schedule, eff. May 1, 2013. However,

the additional $50 administrative fee is waived if the plaintiff is granted leave to proceed IFP. 

Id. 

Plaintiff is cautioned that if he chooses to proceed further with this action either by 2

paying the full $400 in civil and administrative fees required by 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a), or moving

to proceed IFP, his Complaint, which is currently comprised of a single page of unpunctuated

and nonsensical legal jargon seeking a “writ of attachment garnishment” for hundreds of

millions of dollars against unidentified “agents” including Chief U.S. Supreme Court Justice

John Roberts and the President of the United States, will be screened and immediately dismissed

as frivolous pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(b) and 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(b). See Lopez v.

Smith, 203 F.3d 1122, 1126-27 (9th Cir. 2000) (en banc) (noting that 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e) “not

only permits but requires” the court to sua sponte dismiss an in forma pauperis complaint that

fails to state a claim); see also Rhodes v. Robinson, 621 F.3d 1002, 1004 (9th Cir. 2010)

(discussing sua sponte screening required by 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(b) of all prisoner complaints).

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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court shall provide Plaintiff

with this Court’s approved form “Motion and Declaration in Support of Motion to

Proceed In Forma Pauperis.” If Plaintiff fails to either prepay the $400 civil filing fee

or complete and submit the enclosed Motion to Proceed IFP within that time, this action

shall remain dismissed without prejudice and without further Order of the Court.

DATED: December 19, 2013

HONORABLE LARRY ALAN BURNS

United States District Judge

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