Opinion ID: 171891
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Heading: second order requiring completion of in forma pauperis application

Text: The matter before the court is the Reply Motion to the Court's Inquiry of Completion of In Forma Pauperis Application (Response) filed by pro se appellant Oliver Boling-Bey, a federal prisoner. The Response addresses our Order Requiring Completion of In Forma Pauperis Application, filed December 9, 2008 (First Order). In that Order, we directed Boling-Bey to submit a certified copy of his inmate trust fund account statement in support of his Motion for Leave to Proceed on Appeal Without Prepayment of Costs or Fees ( ifp Motion), as required by statute: A prisoner seeking to bring a civil action or appeal a judgment in a civil action or proceeding without prepayment of fees or security therefor, in addition to filing the affidavit under paragraph (1), shall submit a certified copy of the trust fund account statement (or institutional equivalent) for the 6-month period immediately preceding the filing of the complaint or notice of appeal, obtained from the appropriate official of each prison at which the prisoner is or was confined. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(2). Boling-Bey did not supply a certified copy of his trust fund account statement with his response. Instead he argued that he need not obtain authorization to proceed ifp on appeal because he was permitted to proceed ifp in the district court and it did not certify that this appeal was not taken in good faith or find he was not otherwise entitled to proceed ifp on appeal. Affording his pro se Response and other papers liberal construction, see Hall v. Bellmon, 935 F.2d 1106, 1110 & n. 6 (10th Cir.1991), we reject this argument as well as his other excuses for not complying with the First Order.