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Parties Involved:
Samaul Cortez
Defendant
Rodney Allen Williams
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

RODNEY ALLEN WILLIAMS, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

SAMAUL CORTEZ, 

Defendant. 

No. 2:24-cv-2085 AC P 

ORDER 

 Plaintiff, a county jail inmate proceeding pro se, has filed a civil rights action pursuant to 

42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff has not, however, filed a complete in forma pauperis affidavit or paid 

the required filing fee of $350.00 plus the $55.00 administrative fee.1

 See 28 U.S.C. §§ 1914(a), 

1915(a). Plaintiff will be provided the opportunity either to submit the appropriate affidavit in 

support of a request to proceed in forma pauperis or to submit the required fees totaling $405.00. 

 Plaintiff is cautioned that the in forma pauperis application form includes a section that 

must be completed by a prison official, and the form must be accompanied by a certified copy of 

plaintiff’s prison trust account statement for the six-month period immediately preceding the 

filing of this action. 

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 If leave to file in forma pauperis is granted, plaintiff will still be required to pay the filing fee 

but will be allowed to pay it in installments. Litigants proceeding in forma pauperis are not 

required to pay the $55.00 administrative fee. 

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 In accordance with the above, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 

 1. Plaintiff shall submit, within thirty days from the date of this order, an affidavit in 

support of his request to proceed in forma pauperis on the form provided by the Clerk of Court, or 

the required fees in the amount of $405.00; plaintiff’s failure to comply with this order will result 

in a recommendation that this action be dismissed; and 

 2. The Clerk of the Court is directed to send plaintiff a new Application to Proceed In 

Forma Pauperis By a Prisoner. 

DATED: August 6, 2024 

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