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Parties Involved:
CDCR
Defendant
Anthony Hamlet
Plaintiff

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ANTHONY HAMLET,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-10-1629 EFB P

vs.

SECRETARY OF CDCR,

Defendant. ORDER

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Plaintiff is a prisoner without counsel who, it appears, intends to seek relief for alleged

civil rights violations. See 42 U.S.C. § 1983. However, he has not filed a complaint, nor has he

paid the filing fee or filed an application for leave to proceed in forma pauperis. 

A complaint is necessary for the commencement of a civil action and must contain a

short and plain statement of plaintiff’s claim, showing that he is entitled to relief. Fed. R. Civ. P.

3; Fed. R. Civ. P. 8. Plaintiff may draft his claims on the form complaint used by this court.

To proceed with a civil action, a plaintiff must pay the $350 filing fee required by 28

U.S.C. § 1914(a) or request leave to proceed in forma pauperis and submit the affidavit and trust

account statement required by 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a). Section 1915(a)(2) requires “a prisoner

seeking to bring a civil action without prepayment of fees or security therefor, in addition to

filing the affidavit filed under paragraph (1), shall submit a certified copy of the trust fund 

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account statement (or institutional equivalent) for the prisoner for the 6-month period

immediately preceding the filing of the complaint . . . , obtained from the appropriate official of

each prison at which the prisoner is or was confined.” In order to proceed, plaintiff must either

pay the filing fee or comply with the in forma pauperis statute.

 Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that:

1. The Clerk of the Court shall send to plaintiff the form complaint and application for

leave to proceed in forma pauperis used in this court.

2. Withing 30 days of the date of this order, plaintiff shall either pay the $350 filing fee

or submit a complete application for leave to proceed in forma pauperis; and

3. Within 30 days of the date of this order, plaintiff shall submit a complaint stating the

nature of the action and his belief that he is entitled to redress. Failure to comply with this order

will result in a recommendation that this action be dismissed. 

DATED: July 20, 2010.

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