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Parties Involved:
Corizon Health
Defendant
Guillermo G. Paez, Jr.
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

GUILLERMO G. PAEZ, JR.,

Plaintiff,

v.

CORIZON HEALTH,

Defendant.

1:17-cv-00285 MJS (PC)

ORDER GRANTING APPLICATION TO 

PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS

(ECF No. 2)

and

ORDER DIRECTING PAYMENT

OF INMATE FILING FEE BY FRESNO 

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 remains obligated to pay the 

statutory filing fee of $350.00 for this action. 28 U.S.C. ' 1915(b)(1). He must make 

monthly payments in the amount of twenty percent of the preceding month=s income 

credited to his trust account. The Fresno 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).

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

HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. Plaintiff's application to proceed in forma pauperis is GRANTED;

2. The Fresno County Jail or his designee shall collect payments from 

plaintiff=s prison trust account in an amount equal to twenty per cent (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 Fresno County Jail, via the 

court's electronic case filing system (CM/ECF).

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 (60) 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: March 7, 2017 /s/Michael J. Seng 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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