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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

MANUEL ANTONIO GONZALEZ, III,

Plaintiff,

v.

J. RAZO, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:15-cv-00680 DLB PC

Case No. 1:15-cv-01098 LJO SKO PC

ORDER DIRECTING CLERK OF COURT TO 

APPLY THE $400.00 PAYMENT MADE IN 

THIS CASE TO THE FILING FEE IN CASE 

NO. 1:15-cv-01098-LJO-SKO-PC

Plaintiff Manuel Antonio Gonzalez, III, # T-42888, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, filed 

this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on May 4, 2015, along with a motion for leave 

to proceed in forma pauperis. On May 15, 2015, Plaintiff consented to the jurisdiction of the 

Magistrate Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c).

On May 28, 2015, the Court determined that Plaintiff is subject to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), 

having brought an action on three or more occasions that was dismissed on grounds of being 

frivolous, malicious, or failing to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. The Court issued 

an order denying Plaintiff’s motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis, and dismissed the action 

without prejudice to refiling accompanied by the $400.00 filing fee. Judgment was entered that 

same date.

On July 6, 2016, after the case had been terminated Plaintiff submitted $400.00 for payment 

of the filing fee. Plaintiff was informed that the case was dismissed and closed on May 28, 2015, 

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and that the dismissal was without prejudice to refiling a new case with payment of the filing fee. 

Accordingly, the Clerk of Court was directed to return Plaintiff’s payment of $400.00. 

On August 10, 2015, the Clerk of Court received a letter from Plaintiff concerning the 

$400.00 filing fee. Plaintiff states he wishes to send the $400.00 filing fee in this case, once it is 

returned to him, back to the Court for payment of the filing fee in Case No. 1:15-cv-01098 LJO SKO 

PC. At present, the filing fee has not yet been returned to Plaintiff. In order to avoid mailing the 

filing fee to Plaintiff only for Plaintiff to have to return the filing fee to the Court, the Court will 

direct that the $400.00 payment made in the instant case, Case No. 15-cv-00680 DLB PC, be applied 

to the filing fee in Case No. 1:15-cv-01098 LJO SKO PC.

ORDER

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Clerk of Court is DIRECTED to apply the 

payment of $400.00 toward the filing fee in Case No. 1:15-cv-01098 LJO SKO PC.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 18, 2015 /s/ Dennis L. Beck 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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