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Parties Involved:
Haque
Defendant
Paul Winfield
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PAUL WINFIELD,

Plaintiff,

v.

HAQUE,

Defendant.

No. 2:15-cv-2011 CKD P

ORDER

By an order filed October 6, 2015, plaintiff was ordered to file an in forma pauperis 

application or pay the filing fee for this action within thirty days. (ECF No. 6.) He was cautioned 

that failure to do so would result in dismissal of this action. (Id.) The thirty day period has now 

expired, and plaintiff has neither filed an IFP application nor paid the filing fee. Instead, he has 

filed a document stating that he cannot obtain the IFP paperwork, but seeks IFP status nonetheless 

because he “can’t afford the filing fee.” (ECF No. 9.)

Court records indicate that plaintiff has been deemed a “Three Strikes” inmate under 28 

U.S.C. § 1915(g). In Winfield v. Rappoport, No. 2:12-cv-2387 WBS AC, the district judge 

adopted findings and recommendations denying plaintiff IFP status because he had filed three or 

more frivolous actions.1 (Id., ECF Nos. 5 & 8.) The case was subsequently dismissed due to 

 

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The magistrate found the following actions had been dismissed for failure to state a claim: 

Winfield v. Davis, No. 2:03-cv-0101 FCD PAN P; Winfield v. Katcher, No. 2:03-cv-2064 GEB 

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plaintiff’s failure to pay the filing fee. (Id., ECF No. 13.)

28 U.S.C. § 1915 permits any court of the United States to authorize the commencement 

and prosecution of any suit without prepayment of fees by a person who submits an affidavit 

indicating that the person is unable to pay such fees. However,

[i]n no event shall a prisoner bring a civil action or appeal a 

judgment in a civil action or proceeding under this section if the 

prisoner has, on 3 or more prior occasions, while incarcerated or 

detained in any facility, brought an action or appeal in a court of the 

United States that was dismissed on the grounds that it is frivolous, 

malicious, or fails to state a claim upon which relief may be 

granted, unless the prisoner is under imminent danger of serious 

physical injury.

28 U.S.C. § 1915(g). 

Here, plaintiff alleges that defendant is forcing him to take psychotropic drugs to which he 

is allergic. (ECF No. 1.) In Winfield v. Rappoport, in which plaintiff claimed defendants were 

trying to kill him with psychotropic drugs, the magistrate noted that “similar allegations involving 

his psychotropic medication have been the basis of many of plaintiff’s complaints over the last 

ten years against various defendants, though plaintiff has yet to be murdered by defendants due to 

medication as alleged in the instant complaint.” (Id., ECF No. 5.) As in that case, the 

undersigned finds that plaintiff has not credibly alleged “imminent danger of serious physical 

injury” under § 1915(g). 

In light of the above, plaintiff will be granted an additional fourteen days to pay the filing 

fee in this action; otherwise, it will be dismissed.

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GGH P; Winfield v. Downing, No. 2:06-cv-0391 GEB JFM P; and Winfield v. Suliven, No. 2:07-

cv-0828 LKK EFB P. (Id., ECF No. 5.) Having reviewed these actions, the undersigned concurs 

that they constitute “strikes” under § 1915(g).

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IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff shall pay the $400 filing fee no later than 

fourteen days from the date of this order. Failure to comply with this order will result in 

dismissal of this action.

Dated: November 24, 2015

2 / winf2011.threestrikes

_____________________________________

CAROLYN K. DELANEY

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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