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Parties Involved:
Thornton
Defendant
Edgar Lee Warren
Plaintiff

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 If leave to file in forma pauperis is granted, plaintiff will still be required to pay the

filing fee but will be allowed to pay it in installments.

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

EDGAR LEE WARREN, 

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-08-2313 KJM P

vs.

THORNTON,

Defendant. ORDER

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Plaintiff, a Butte County Jail prisoner, has filed an incomplete application to

proceed in forma pauperis. No other documents have been filed by the plaintiff. In order to

commence an action, plaintiff must file a complaint as required by Rule 3 of the Federal Rules of

Civil Procedure, and plaintiff must either pay the required filing fee or file a completed

application requesting leave to proceed in forma pauperis.1

 See 28 U.S.C. §§ 1914(a), 1915(a). 

The court will not issue any orders granting or denying relief until an action has been properly

commenced. 

In accordance with the above, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. Plaintiff is granted thirty days from the date of service of this order to file a 

complaint that complies with the requirements of the Civil Rights Act, the Federal Rules of Civil

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Procedure, and the Local Rules of Practice; the complaint must bear the docket number assigned

this case and plaintiff must file an original and two copies of the complaint. 

2. Plaintiff shall also submit, within thirty days from the date of this order, an

application to proceed in forma pauperis on the form provided by the Clerk of Court, or the filing

fee in the amount of $350.00. 

3. Plaintiff's failure to comply with this order will result in a recommendation

that this matter be dismissed.

4. The Clerk of the Court is directed to send plaintiff the court’s form for filing a

civil rights action, and the application to proceed in forma pauperis by a prisoner.

DATED: October 20, 2008. 

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