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Parties Involved:
Cordell Howard
Plaintiff
Kings County Jail
Defendant
Kings County Jail Sheriffs
Defendant

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CORDELL HOWARD,

Plaintiff,

v.

KINGS COUNTY JAIL SHERIFFS, et al.,

Defendants.

1:15-cv-01647-SAB (PC)

ORDER GRANTING APPLICATION TO 

PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS

(ECF 2) and ORDER DIRECTING PAYMENT

OF INMATE FILING FEE BY KINGS 

COUNTY JAIL

Plaintiff is a prisoner proceeding pro se pursuant to 42 U.S.C. ' 1983 and has requested 

leave to proceed in forma pauperis 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 Sheriff of the Kings 

County Jail is required to send to the Clerk of the Court payments from plaintiff=s account each 

time the amount in the account exceeds $10.00, until the statutory filing fee is paid in full. 28 

U.S.C. ' 1915(b)(2).

In accordance with the above and good cause appearing therefore, IT IS HEREBY 

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ORDERED that:

1. Plaintiff’s application to proceed in forma pauperis is Granted;

2. The Sheriff of the Kings County Jail or his designee shall collect payments from 

Plaintiff’s prison trust account in an amount equal to twenty percent (20%) of

the preceding month’s income credited to the prisoner’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 Sheriff of the Kings County Jail,

via U.S. mail.

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.

5. Within sixty days of the date of service of this order, Plaintiff shall submit a 

certified copy of his prison 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: November 10, 2015 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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