Opinion
3:23-cv-05876-KKE-BAT
10-17-2023
JOSHUA A. DICKENS, Plaintiff, v. STATE OF WASHINGTON et al., Defendant.
ORDER GRANTING APPLICATION TO PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS AND DIRECTING INSTITUTION TO CALCULATE, COLLECT, AND FORWARD PAYMENTS
BRIAN A. TSUCHIDA UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
Plaintiff is a prisoner proceeding pro se in this civil rights action. The Court, having reviewed plaintiff's application to proceed in forma pauperis, hereby finds and ORDERS as follows:
(1) The Court GRANTS plaintiff's application to proceed in forma pauperis (Dkt. 3).
(2) Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915, and plaintiff's approved application to proceed in forma pauperis, the agency having custody of the above-named plaintiff is directed to calculate an initial partial filing fee equal to 20 percent of the greater of either: (a) the average monthly deposits to the prisoner's account; or (b) the average monthly balance in the prisoner's account for the 6-month period immediately preceding the date of this Order. The initial partial filing fee should be forwarded to the Clerk of Court as soon as practicable.
Subsequently, if the prisoner's account exceeds $10.00, each month the agency having custody of the prisoner is directed to collect and forward payments equal to 20 percent of the prisoner's preceding month's income credited to the prisoner's account. In the event that the monthly payment would reduce the prisoner's account below $10.00, the agency should collect and forward only that amount which would reduce the prisoner's account to the $10.00 level. Please note that this $10.00 limit does not apply to the initial partial filing fee described above. Finally, the monthly payments should be collected and forwarded to the Court until the entire filing fee ($350.00) for this matter has been paid.
(3) The Clerk is directed to send a copy of this Order to plaintiff, to the financial officer of this Court, and to the agency having custody of plaintiff.