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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 

AT TACOMA 

ANTHONY BOTEILHO, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

CHRISTINE GREGOIRE et al., 

Defendants.

 CASE NO. C09-5407 FDB 

ORDER GRANTING 

APPLICATION TO PROCEED IN 

FORMA PAUPERIS AND 

DIRECTING INSTITUTION TO 

CALCULATE, COLLECT, AND 

FORWARD PAYMENTS 

 The Court, having reviewed plaintiff's application to proceed in forma pauperis, (Dkt. # 1 

and 3) does hereby find and ORDER. 

 (1) Plaintiff’s declaration indicates he is unable to afford the court’s filing fee or give 

security therefore. Accordingly, plaintiff’s application to proceed as a pauper is GRANTED. 

As set forth below, an initial partial filing fee will be collected, and plaintiff is required to 

make monthly payments of 20 percent of the preceding months income credited to his/her 

account until the full amount of the filing fee is satisfied. 

 (2) Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915 and plaintiff’s approved application to proceed in forma 

pauperis, the agency having custody of the above named plaintiff is directed to calculate an 

initial partial filing fee equal to 20 percent or greater of -- the average monthly deposits to the 

prisoner’s account or the average monthly balance in the prisoner’s account for the 6-month 

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period immediately preceding the date of this Order. The initial partial filing fee should be 

forwarded to the court clerk as soon as practicable. 

 Subsequently, if the prisoner’s account exceeds $10.00, each month the agency is 

directed to collect and forward payments equal to 20 percent of the prisoner’s preceding month’s 

income credited to the prisoner’s account. In the event that the monthly payment would reduce 

the prisoner’s account below $10.00, the agency should collect and forward only that amount 

which would reduce the prisoner’s account to the $10.00 level. Please note that this $10.00 limit 

does not apply to the initial partial filing fee described above. Finally, the monthly payments 

should be collected and forwarded to the court until the entire filing fee ($350.00) for this matter 

has been paid. 

(3) The Clerk is directed to send plaintiff a copy of this Order and the General Order, 

and a copy of this Order along with a copy of plaintiff’s Acknowledgment and Authorization 

portion of the IFP application to the Prison Litigation Reform Act (“PLRA”) contact person, the 

inmate account manager at Washington State Department of Correction.. 

DATED this 14th day of August, 2009. 

A

J. Richard Creatura 

United States Magistrate Judge 

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