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Timestamp: 2019-01-18 03:46:40
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1983', '§ 1914', '§ 1915', '§ 1914', '§ 1915', '§ 1915', '§ 1915', '§ 1914', '§ 1914', '§ 1915']

Ledbetter v. Shelby Cnty. Jail, No. 2:17-cv-2122-STA-egb | Casetext
Ledbetter v. Shelby Cnty. Jail
No. 2:17-cv-2122-STA-egb (W.D. Tenn. May. 25, 2017)
Shelby Cnty. Jail
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE WESTERN DIVISIONMay 25, 2017
No. 2:17-cv-2122-STA-egb
KENNDRICK LEDBETTER, Plaintiff, v. SHELBY COUNTY JAIL, ET AL., Defendants.
On February 13, 2017, Plaintiff Kenndrick Ledbetter, booking number 13146668, who is incarcerated at the Shelby County Criminal Justice Center ("Jail") in Memphis, Tennessee, filed a pro se complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.A. § 1983 (ECF No. 1.) However, Plaintiff did not submit either the $400 civil filing fee required by 28 U.S.C. §§ 1914(a)-(b) or an application to proceed in forma pauperis.
Under the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act ("PLRA"), 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)-(b), a prisoner bringing a civil action must pay the filing fee required by 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a). Although the obligation to pay the fee accrues at the moment the case if filed, see McGore v. Wrigglesworth, 114 F.3d 601, 605 (6th Cir. 1997), partially overruled on other grounds by LaFountain v. Harry, 716 F.3d 944, 951 (6th Cir. 2013), the PLRA provides the prisoner the opportunity to make a "down payment" of a partial filing fee and pay the remainder in installments. § 1915(b)(2). However, in order to take advantage of the installment procedures, the prisoner must properly complete and submit to the district court, along with the complaint, an in forma pauperis affidavit containing a certification by the prisoner trust account officer and a copy of his trust account statement for the last six months. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(2).
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(1), it is ORDERED that Plaintiff cooperate fully with prison officials in carrying out this order. It is further ORDERD that the trust fund officer at Plaintiff's prison shall withdraw from Plaintiff's trust fund account the sum of $400 and forward that amount to the Clerk of this Court. If the funds in Plaintiff's account are insufficient to pay the full amount of the civil filing fee, the prison official is instructed to withdraw all the funds in Plaintiff's account and forward them to the Clerk of Court. On each occasion that funds are subsequently credited to Plaintiff's account, the prison official shall immediately withdraw those funds and forward them to the Clerk of Court, until the civil filing fee is paid in full. The trust fund officer is not required to remit any balances less than $10, unless that amount would constitute the final installment of the civil filing fee, provided that any balance under $10 is held in custody for purposes of paying the civil filing fee in this action and is promptly remitted to the Clerk when sufficient funds are deposited into Plaintiff's account to bring the balance to $10.
Twenty-eight U.S.C. § 1914(a) requires a civil filing fee of $350. However, pursuant to § 1914(b), "[t]he Clerk shall collect from the parties such additional fees only as are prescribed by the Judicial Conference of the United States." The Judicial Conference has prescribed an additional administrative fee of $50 for filing any civil case, except for cases seeking habeas corpus and cases in which the Plaintiff is granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis under 28 U.S.C. § 1915. Because leave to proceed in forma pauperis has been denied in this case, Plaintiff is liable for the additional $50 fee. --------