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Parties Involved:
Commissioner of Social Security
Defendant
Jeanne Scott
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JEANNE SCOTT,

Plaintiff,

v.

CAROLYN W. COLVIN, 

Acting Commissioner Of Social Security,

Defendant.

Case No. 1:15-cv-00684-SMS

ORDER DENYING APPLICATION 

TO PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS

(Doc. 3) 

By motion filed May 4, 2015, Plaintiff Jeanne Scott, by her attorneys MacKenzie Legal, 

PLLC, seeks to proceed in forma pauperis. Plaintiff submitted a vague and conclusory application 

that provides the Court with no understanding of her financial situation other than that she is 

presently unemployed, is supported by her husband, and owns a home subject to a deed of trust 

exceeding the home's value. In addition, the Court is perplexed by Plaintiff's disclosure that three 

children are financially dependent on her but that she provides nothing toward their support. Since 

Plaintiff is apparently part of a nuclear family that functions as a single economic unit, the 

application to proceed in forma pauperis should set forth sufficient information to enable the Court 

to evaluate whether her family's economic situation as a whole is sufficiently impoverished to justify 

her proceeding without paying the filing fee for her lawsuit.

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In addition, the Court notes that Plaintiff did not include the names of the plaintiff and 

defendant or the case number in the caption of her application. If Plaintiff elects to submit an 

amended application, as this order permits her to do, she must provide complete case information in 

the caption of the document.

Accordingly, the Court DENIES Plaintiffs’ motion to proceed in forma pauperis. Plaintiff 

shall either submit an amended and complete application to proceed in forma pauperis or pay the 

filing fee to the Clerk of Court within thirty (30) days of this order. In the event that Plaintiff does 

not pay the filing fee or submit an amended application, the Court shall dismiss the case for lack of 

prosecution without further notice.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 6, 2015 /s/ Sandra M. Snyder 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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