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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1983 Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RONALD JERRELL INMAN,

Plaintiff,

v.

TERRY K. COLE, et al.,

Defendants.

No. 1:20-cv-00774-NONE-SAB

ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND 

RECOMMENDATIONS AND DISMISSING

ACTION FOR FAILURE TO PAY FILING 

FEE AND FAILURE TO OBEY COURT 

ORDER

(Doc. No. 7)

Plaintiff Ronald Jerrell Inman, a state prisoner, is appearing pro se in this civil rights 

action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This matter was referred to a United States Magistrate 

Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and Local Rule 302.

Plaintiff filed the complaint in this action on June 3, 2020. (Doc. No. 1.) As plaintiff did 

not pay the filing fee or submit an application to proceed in this action in forma pauperis, on June 

5, 2020, an order issued requiring plaintiff to show cause why this action should not be dismissed 

for failure to pay the filing fee, or to pay the filing fee in full within fourteen days. (Doc. No. 2.) 

The order to show cause found that plaintiff was not entitled to procced without prepayment of 

fees pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g). (Id.) On June 8, 2020, plaintiff filed an application to 

proceed in forma pauperis in this action. (Doc. No. 3.) On June 11, 2020, the magistrate judge

issued findings and recommendations recommending plaintiff’s application to proceed in forma 

pauperis be denied and plaintiff be ordered to pay the filing fee in full. (Doc. No. 4.) Following 

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the filing of objections, on August 6, 2020, the undersigned adopted the findings and 

recommendations and denied plaintiff’s application to proceed in forma pauperis, ordering

plaintiff to pay the filing fee in this action within twenty-one (21) days. (Doc. No. 6.) The order 

specified that: “Plaintiff is warned that if he fails to pay the filing fee within the specified time, 

this action will be dismissed.” (Doc No. 6 at 2 (emphasis in original).) The order also referred 

the matter back to the magistrate judge for further proceedings. More than twenty-one (21) days 

passed since the order was issued and plaintiff failed to pay the filing fee or otherwise respond to 

the court’s August 6, 2020 order. 

Accordingly, on September 4, 2020, the assigned magistrate judge issued findings and 

recommendations, recommending that this action be dismissed without prejudice due to 

plaintiff’s failure to pay the required filing fee. (Doc. No. 7.) The findings and recommendations 

were served upon plaintiff and provided him fourteen (14) days to file objections thereto. (Id. at 

3.) Plaintiff has not filed any objections and the time to do so has passed.

In accordance with the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(C), this court has conducted a 

de novo review of this case. Having carefully reviewed the entire file, the court finds the pending 

findings and recommendations to be supported by the record and proper analysis.

Accordingly,

1. The findings and recommendations issued on September 4, 2020 (Doc. No. 7) are 

ADOPTED IN FULL;

2. This action is DISMISSED without prejudice due to plaintiff’s failure to pay the 

filing fee and failure to obey an order of the court; and

3. The Clerk of the Court is directed to assign a district judge to this action for 

purposes of closure and to CLOSE THIS CASE.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 9, 2020 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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