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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 

Treymayne Carroll 

H-73384, 

Plaintiff,

v. 

State of California, 

Defendants.

 Case No.: 3:15-cv-01722 LAB (WVG) 

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) 

Treymayne Carroll (“Plaintiff”), currently incarcerated at Richard J. Donovan 

Correctional Facility located in San Diego, California, and proceeding pro se, has filed a 

civil rights complaint (“Compl.”) pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (ECF No. 1). 

I. Failure to Pay Filing Fee or Request IFP Status 

 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 

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$400. See 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a).1

 An action may proceed despite a plaintiff’s failure to 

prepay the entire fee only if he is granted leave to proceed 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. 

II. Conclusion and Order 

 For the reasons set forth above, the Court hereby: 

 (1) DISMISSES this action sua sponte without prejudice 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); 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). 

                                                                

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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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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 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. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: August 5, 2015 

 _____________________________________ 

 Hon. Larry Alan Burns 

 United States District Judge 

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