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Parties Involved:
California State Prison Solano Medical Department
Defendant
Quoc Xuong Luu
Plaintiff

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

QUOC XUONG LUU,

Plaintiff, CIV S-07-cv-0141 ALA P

vs.

CALIFORNIA STATE PRISON

SOLANO MEDICAL DEPARTMENT,

Defendant. ORDER

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Plaintiff Quoc Xuong Luu, is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action

pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983. On April 13, 2007, plaintiff was given thirty (30) days to submit

either the $350 filing fee or an application to proceed in forma pauperis. On May 17, 2007,

plaintiff filed a document claiming that he was receiving the “run-around” due to a newly

enacted prison policy, along with a copy of plaintiff’s inmate trust account.

 On November 14, 2007, this court issued plaintiff an order to show cause as to why his

complaint should not be dismissed for plaintiff’s failure to either pay the filing fee or submit an

application to proceed in forma pauperis. On December 5, 2007, plaintiff filed a declaration

discussing the steps he had taken to comply with the courts order and claiming that his

application for in forma pauperis was continually stalled by prison officials. On December 12,

2007, this court issued an order to the Warden of California State Prison Solano ordering that he

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inform the court regarding the processing of plaintiff’s application to proceed in forma pauperis. 

On February 7, 2008, Supervising Deputy Attorney General Monica Anderson responded

to the court’s December 12, 2007, order. In that response Attorney General Anderson indicates

that the prison did process the necessary paperwork for plaintiff and it is unknown why the court

did not receive that paperwork. The response also notes that plaintiff had submitted a complete

application to proceed in forma pauperis in a different case, 2:07-cv-0942, and suggests that the

court take judicial notice of that application. 

Having reviewed the filings in case 2:07-cv-0942 the court finds that plaintiff has

submitted a complete application to proceed in forma pauperis in that case. The court will adopt

that filing for purposes of this matter. At a later date, the court will evaluate plaintiff’s

application to proceed in forma pauperis and screen plaintiff’s complaint. 

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff’s application to proceed in forma

pauperis in case 2:07-cv-0942, document #6, is adopted for these proceedings.

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DATED: February 8, 2008 

/s/ Arthur L. Alarcón 

 UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE

Sitting by Designation

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