Patel

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BRIAN DION LEWIS, No. 1:24-cv-00847 GSA (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION

REQUESTING PRISON’S RETURN OF

v. MISAPPROPRIATED FILING FEES M.D. ISMAIL PATEL, (ECF No. 12) Defendant. 16 Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, has filed this civil rights action seeking relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The matter was referred to a United States Magistrate Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and Local Rule 302. Before this Court is Plaintiff’s motion which requests that filing fees that prison officials have allegedly misappropriated be returned to him. See generally ECF No 12. For the reasons stated below, the Court will deny Plaintiff’s motion. In Plaintiff’s filing fee motion, he appears to allege that improper amounts are being taken from his prison trust fund account by prison officials at Kern Valley State Prison in order to pay the filing fee…