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Parties Involved:
District Attorney
Defendant
Larry McCorvey
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LARRY McCORVEY,

Plaintiff,

v.

DISTRICT ATTORNEY,

Defendant.

Case No. 1:17-cv-00035-LJO-SAB (PC)

ORDER GRANTING APPLICATION TO 

PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS AND 

DIRECTING PAYMENT OF INMATE 

FILING FEE BY FRESNO COUNTY JAIL

(ECF No. 3)

Plaintiff Larry McCorvey, a pretrial detainee, is appearing pro se and in forma pauperis in 

this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff filed a complaint in this action on 

January 10, 2017. (ECF No. 1.) On January 12, 2017, an order issued requiring Plaintiff to pay 

the filing fee or file an application to proceed without prepayment of fees. (ECF No. 2.) On 

January 23, 2017, Plaintiff filed a motion to proceed without prepayment of fees.

Plaintiff seeks to proceed without prepayment of fees in this action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 

§ 1915. Plaintiff has made the showing required by § 1915(a) and accordingly, the request to 

proceed in forma pauperis will be granted. Plaintiff is obligated to pay the statutory filing fee of 

$350.00 for this action. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(1). Plaintiff is obligated to make monthly 

payments in the amount of twenty percent of the preceding month’s income credited to plaintiff’s 

trust account. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is required to send to 

the Clerk of the Court payments from plaintiff’s account each time the amount in the account 

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exceeds $10.00, until the statutory filing fee is paid in full. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(2).

 Based on the foregoing, it is HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. Plaintiff's application to proceed in forma pauperis is granted;

2. The Fresno County Sheriff or his designee shall collect payments from plaintiff’s 

inmate trust account in an amount equal to twenty per cent (20%) of the preceding 

month’s income credited to the detainee’s trust account and shall forward those

payments to the Clerk of the Court each time the amount in the account exceeds 

$10.00, in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(2), until a total of $350.00 has 

been collected and forwarded to the Clerk of the Court. The payments shall be 

clearly identified by the name and number assigned to this action;

3. The Clerk of the Court is directed to serve a copy of this order and a copy of 

plaintiff’s in forma pauperis application on the Fresno County Jail via the court’s 

electronic case filing system (CM/ECF);

4. The Clerk of the Court is directed to serve a copy of this order on the Financial 

Department, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, Sacramento 

Division; and

5. Within sixty (60) days of the date of service of this order, plaintiff shall submit a 

certified copy of his inmate trust account statement for the six-month period 

immediately preceding the filing of the complaint, if plaintiff has not already done 

so.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 24, 2017 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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