Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2014-09-24 20:01:34.792971+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:31:49.545830
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Case: 14-7120   Document: 9      Page: 1    Filed: 09/24/2014

            NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                ______________________

                 DONALD R. DAVIS,
                 Claimant-Appellant,

                            v.

     ROBERT A. MCDONALD, SECRETARY OF
            VETERANS AFFAIRS,
              Respondent-Appellee.
             ______________________

                      2014-7120
                ______________________

   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 14-2089, Judge Mary J. Schoelen.
                ______________________

                    ON MOTION
                ______________________

                       ORDER
   Donald R. Davis moves for leave to proceed in forma
pauperis.
    Davis is incarcerated. Pursuant to the Prisoner Liti-
gation Reform Act of 1995, this court may not authorize
the prosecution of an appeal by a prisoner without the
prepayment of fees. 28 U.S.C. § 1915. A prisoner is no
longer afforded the alternative of proceeding without
Case: 14-7120        Document: 9    Page: 2     Filed: 09/24/2014

2                                  DAVIS   v. MCDONALD

payment of filing fees, but must, in time, pay the $500
filing fee in its entirety. When funds exist, an initial
partial payment must be made consisting of 20% of the
greater of (a) the average monthly deposits to the prison-
er’s account or (b) the average monthly balance in the
prisoner’s account for the six-month period immediately
preceding the filing of the notice of appeal. 28 U.S.C.
§ 1915(b)(1). Thereafter, the prisoner is required to make
monthly payments of 20% of the preceding month’s in-
come credited to the prisoner’s account.           28 U.S.C.
§ 1915(b)(2). The agency with custody of the prisoner
must forward payments from the prisoner’s account each
time the amount in the account exceeds $10 until the
$500 filing fee is paid in full. Id. Davis has indicated that
one of his prior actions or appeals was dismissed because
it was frivolous, malicious, or failed to state a claim upon
which relief can be granted.
   By separate letter, the custodian of Davis’s prison ac-
count is being directed to make the necessary arrange-
ments to forward the filing fee to the court.
      Accordingly,
      IT IS ORDERED THAT:
      The motion is denied.
                                       FOR THE COURT

                                       /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
                                       Daniel E. O’Toole
                                       Clerk of Court
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