Opinion
2:21-cv-01788-GMN-NJK
04-04-2022
DONALD E. JACKSON, Plaintiff v. WILLIAM HUTCHINGS, et al., Defendants
ORDER (DOCKET NO. 6)
NANCY T KOPPE, UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
I. DISCUSSION
On March 31, 2022, Plaintiff in this civil rights action filed a motion seeking copies of the exhibits attached to his complaint. Docket No. 6. Plaintiff states that, although he received a copy of his complaint following the entry of this Court's screening order, he did not receive copies of the exhibits to the complaint. Id. at 2.
The Court denies Plaintiff's motion without prejudice. In its screening order, the Court directed the Clerk of the Court to send Plaintiff a courtesy copy of his 67-page complaint. Docket No. 4 at 9; Docket No. 4-1. The courtesy copy included both the complaint itself and the ten exhibits Plaintiff submitted with the complaint. Docket No. 4-1. Thus, Plaintiff should have received the exhibits he is now requesting. If Plaintiff did not receive the 67-page document attached to the Court's screening order, he should make that clear in a renewed motion for courtesy copies.
To the extent that Plaintiff is seeking copies of a different set of documents, the Court notes that there is a per page charge for copy work. Copies produced from an electronic format (CM/ECF) are $0.10 per page; copies produced from a physical format are $0.50 per page. An inmate has no constitutional right to free photocopying. Johnson v. Moore, 948 F.2d 517, 521 (9th Cir. 1991). The Court cannot provide free copies even to indigent plaintiffs proceeding in forma pauperis, because the in forma pauperis statute does not authorize the Court to pay the costs for an indigent litigant's copy requests. 28 U.S.C. § 1915.
II. CONCLUSION
For the foregoing reasons, IT IS ORDERED that Plaintiffs motion for courtesy copies, Docket No. 6, is DENIED without prejudice. If Plaintiff seeks copies of documents other than the exhibits submitted with his complaint, he must submit a “Copy and Service Request” form to the Clerk of the Court and pay the appropriate fees. The Clerk of the Court will send Plaintiff a courtesy copy of the “Copy and Service Request” form.