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Parties Involved:
K.C.S.O.
Defendant
Jody Morehouse
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JODY MOREHOUSE,

Plaintiff,

v.

K.C.S.O.,

Defendant.

CASE NO: 1:16-cv-00986 MJS (PC)

ORDER GRANTING APPLICATION TO 

PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS

(ECF No. 5)

ORDER DIRECTING PAYMENT

OF INMATE FILING FEE BY KERN 

COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT

Plaintiff is a county jail inmate 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 is obligated to pay the statutory filing 

fee of $350.00 for this action. 28 U.S.C. ' 1915(b)(1). Plaintiff is obligated to make 

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

credited to plaintiff=s trust account. The Kern County Sheriff’s Department 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).

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

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HEREBY ORDERED that:

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

2. The Director of the Kern County Sheriff’s Department or his/her

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 Director of the Kern County 

Sheriff’s Department, 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: August 8, 2016 /s/Michael J. Seng 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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