Dahlk v. Bertrand

Full title: JOHN GREGORY DAHLK, Petitioner, v. DANIEL BERTRAND, SARAH VANCALSTER…

Court: United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin

Date published: Mar 13, 2003

03-C-0113-C (W.D. Wis. Mar. 13, 2003)

Opinion

03-C-0113-C

March 13, 2003

ORDER

BARBARA CRABB, Chief Judge, District

Petitioner John Gregory Dahlk, a prisoner at the Green Bay Correctional Institution in Green Bay, Wisconsin, has submitted a proposed complaint. He asks for leave to proceed in forma pauperis. Because petitioner is a prisoner, he is subject to the 1996 Prisoner Litigation Reform Act. This means that before this court may decide whether he can proceed with his complaint in forma pauperis, petitioner will have to pay an initial partial payment of the filing fee in the amount of $27.14 and the remainder of the fee in monthly installments even if his request for leave to proceed is denied. If petitioner does not have the money to pay the initial partial payment in his regular account, he will have to arrange with prison authorities to pay some or all of the assessment from his release account.

ORDER

IT IS ORDERED that petitioner is assessed $27.14 as an initial partial payment of the $150 fee for filing this case. He is to submit a check or money order made payable to the clerk of court in the amount of $27.14 on or before March 28, 2003. If, by March 28, 2003, petitioner fails to pay the initial partial payment or show cause for his failure to do so, I will assume that he wishes to withdraw this action voluntarily and the clerk of court is directed to close this file without prejudice to petitioner's filing his case at a later date.