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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

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DAMEN D. RABB,

Plaintiff,

v.

ESTEVEN FIGUEROA, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:23-cv-00843-SAB

ORDER HOLDING APPLICATION TO 

PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS IN 

ABEYANCE PENDING SUBMISSION OF 

CERTIFIED ACCOUNT STATEMENT 

(ECF No. 2)

On June 1, 2023, Damen D. Rabb, (“Plaintiff”), currently incarcerated at the California 

Correctional Institution, Tehachapi, filed this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 

(ECF No. 1.) The complaint, although appearing to be completed by the party, is signed by 

counsel. (ECF No. 1 at 11.) Plaintiff also submitted an application to proceed in forma 

pauperis. (ECF No. 2.) Therein, the form specifies that if the party has “an account in the 

institution,” the party is to certify they “have attached . . . a statement certified by the appropriate 

institutional officer showing all receipts, expenditures, and balances during the last six months 

for any institutional account.” (ECF No. 2 at 1.) Plaintiff did not provide such certified account 

statement. Therefore, the Court is unable to determine if Plaintiff is entitled to proceed without 

prepayment of fees in this action as the application is not complete. 

Typically, as a service to pro se inmates, the Court has a process whereby the information 

consistent with the statement is submitted without the need for a plaintiff to provide such 

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statement so the Court can make its proper determination under the law. Therefore, consistent 

with that process the Court will direct the California Department of Corrections and 

Rehabilitation to submit a certified prison trust account statement. The Court notifies the 

Plaintiff that the Court shall do so in this action, and will consider the application to proceed in 

forma pauperis when the trust account statement is received. 

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiff’s application to proceed in forma 

pauperis (ECF No. 2) is held in ABEYANCE pending submission of the prisoner trust account 

statement. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 6, 2023 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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