CLOSED

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY

 

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LEON CLARENCE GLASPIE, :

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Plaintiff, :

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v. :

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KARL J. SENULA, et al., :

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Defendants. :

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Civil No. 11-0703 (RBK)

ORDER

It appearing that:

1. On February 2, 2011, the Clerk received from Plaintiff, a prisoner confined at Gloucester

County Jail in Woodbury, New Jersey, for filing a civil Complaint and affidavit. Plaintiff asserts

that the diet, recreation and conditions of confinement at the jail are inadequate.

2. The Clerk will not file a civil complaint unless the person seeking relief pays the entire

applicable filing fee in advance or the person applies for and is granted in forma pauperis status

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915. See Local Civil R. 5.1(f). The filing fee for a civil complaint is

$350.00. See 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a). 

3. When a prisoner seeks permission to file a civil complaint in forma pauperis, the Prison

Litigation Reform Act ("PLRA") requires the prisoner to submit an affidavit that includes a

statement of all assets and that the person is unable to pay such fees or give security therefor,

together with a certified copy of the trust fund account statement (or institutional equivalent) for the

prisoner for the six 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. See 28 U.S.C. §

1915(a)(2). 

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4. The PLRA further provides that, if the prisoner is granted permission to file the

complaint in forma pauperis, then the Court is required to assess the $350.00 filing fee against the

prisoner and collect the fee by directing the agency having custody of the prisoner to deduct

installment payments from the prisoner's prison account equal to 20% of the preceding month’s

income credited to the account for each month that the balance of the account exceeds $10.00. See

28 U.S.C. § 1915(b). 

5. In addition, if the prisoner is granted permission to proceed in forma pauperis, then the

PLRA requires this Court to screen the complaint for dismissal and to dismiss any claim that is

frivolous or malicious, fails to state a claim upon which relief may be granted, or seeks monetary

relief from an defendant who is immune from such relief. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B).

6. The PLRA further provides that, if a prisoner has, on three or more occasions while

incarcerated, brought an action or appeal in a federal court that was dismissed as frivolous or

malicious, for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted, or because it seeks

monetary relief from immune defendants, then the prisoner may not bring another action in forma

pauperis unless he or she is in imminent danger of serious physical injury. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g).

7. The above-named Plaintiff is a prisoner. His application to proceed in forma pauperis is

incomplete because he did not submit to the Clerk a certified copy of the trust fund account

statement for the six 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, as required by 28

U.S.C. § 1915(a)(2).

8. Plaintiff's allegations do not show that he is in imminent danger.

IT IS THEREFORE on this 23 day of February , 2011, rd

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ORDERED that Plaintiff's application to proceed in forma pauperis is DENIED WITHOUT

PREJUDICE to re-applying; and it is further

ORDERED that the Clerk shall administratively terminate this action; and it is further

ORDERED that administrative termination is not a “dismissal” for purposes of the statute of

limitations, and if this case is reopened pursuant to this Order, it is not thereby subject to the statute

of limitations bar, provided the original Complaint was timely. See Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266

(1988); McDowell v. Delaware State Police, 88 F.3d 188, 191 (3d Cir. 1996); Williams-Guice v.

Board of Education, 45 F.3d 161, 163 (7th Cir. 1995); and it is further

ORDERED that Plaintiff may have the above entitled case reopened if, within 30 days of the

date of the entry of this Order, Plaintiff either pre-pays the $350.00 filing fee or submits to the

Clerk an affidavit of poverty and a certified copy of the trust fund account statement (or institutional

equivalent) for the prisoner for the six 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, as required by 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a); and it is further

ORDERED that, if Plaintiff prepays the $350.00 filing fee or files the required documents

within 30 days of the date of the entry of this Order, then the Court will enter an order reopening 

the file in order to screen the Complaint for dismissal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B); and it

is finally

ORDERED that the Clerk shall serve this Order on Plaintiff and shall enclose a blank

prisoner application to proceed in forma pauperis in a civil action with the Order. 

 s/Robert B. Kugler 

ROBERT B. KUGLER, U.S.D.J.

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