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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 

SEAVON PIERCE, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

BARACK OBAMA, et al., 

Defendants. 

No. 2:15-cv-1993 WBS AC P 

ORDER 

 Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a civil rights action pursuant to 42 

U.S.C. § 1983. By order dated May 18, 2016, plaintiff was ordered to file an in forma pauperis 

affidavit or pay the required filing fee of $350.00 plus the $50.00 administrative fee.1 See 28 

U.S.C. §§ 1914(a), 1915(a). On June 13, 2016,2 plaintiff filed a document entitled “amended 

complaint.” ECF No. 7. Plaintiff has not, however, filed an in forma pauperis affidavit or paid 

the required filing fee. 

Plaintiff will be provided one final opportunity either to submit the appropriate affidavit 

in support of a request to proceed in forma pauperis or to submit the required fees totaling 

 

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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 $50.00 administrative fee. 

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 Since plaintiff is proceeding pro se, he is afforded the benefit of the prison mailbox rule. See 

Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 276 (1988). 

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$400.00. Plaintiff is cautioned that failure to pay the filing fee or submit an in forma 

pauperis affidavit will result in a recommendation that this action be dismissed.

 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, or 

the required fees in the amount of $400.00; 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: June 23, 2016 

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