Owens

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DYLAN S. CORRAL, No. 2:24-cv-0282 WBS AC Plaintiff, v. ORDER OWENS, Defendant. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without a lawyer. Plaintiff seeks relief pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This proceeding was referred to this court by Local Rule 302 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). Plaintiff filed a notice with the court stating that the court erred in granting in forma pauperis (“IFP”) in this case because he is subject to the three strikes bar under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g). ECF No. 6 at 1. “Plaintiff requests that all funds that the Court received as payment to be returned to Plaintiff directly at the address on the record.” Id. at 1-2. However, plaintiff has not requested leave to proceed IFP under 28 U.S.C. § 1915, nor has plaintiff paid the court’s filing fee in this case. It is therefore unclear whether plaintiff filed the notice regarding IFP in this case by mistake or was under the mistaken…