Price

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA V incent d/b/a Vincent Patrick PRICE, Case No.: 24-cv-1758-AGS-BLM

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING IN FORMA

v. PAUPERIS MOTION (ECF 2) AND

SCREENING AND DISMISSING

SAN DIEGO POLICE DEPARTMENT,

COMPLAINT (ECF 1)

A-Z Towing, 7 Defendants.

Plaintiff Vincent Patrick Price’s motion to proceed without paying the initial filing fee is granted. But his complaint does not state a claim for relief. The Court thus dismisses the case with leave to amend. IFP MOTION Typically, parties instituting a civil action in a United States district court must pay filing fees of $405.1 See 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a). But if granted the right to proceed in forma pauperis, a plaintiff need not pay those fees. Rodriguez v. Cook, 169 F.3d 1176, 1177 (9th Cir. 1999). Price claims to have assets of $1,200 in cash and two cars valued at $12,000. (ECF 2, at 1–3.) But he is unemployed, only made $100 dollars last month, and reports living expenses that…