CALPERS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DON MACALLISTER, No. 2:24-cv-02804-DAD-CKD (PS) Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER

CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES’

RETIREMENT SYSTEM, Defendant. 17 Plaintiff proceeds without counsel and seeks to proceed in forma pauperis. Plaintiff has filed a civil complaint and an application to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”) on a Judicial Council of California form used in state court. (ECF Nos. 1, 2.) In order to commence a civil action, along with the complaint, a plaintiff must either pay the $350.00 filing fee and the $55.00 administrative fee or file an application requesting leave to proceed IFP. See 28 U.S.C. §§ 1914(a), 1915(a). The court may authorize the commencement of an action without prepayment of fees by an individual who submits an affidavit evidencing an inability to pay such fees. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a). Generally, “[a]n affidavit in support of an IFP application is sufficient where it alleges that the affiant cannot pay the court…