Justin

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 MALIK M. JUSTIN, Case No. 25-cv-03492-TSH

Plaintiff,

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

v.

SF STATE UNIVERSITY, Defendant.

12 Plaintiff Malik M. Justin initiated this lawsuit by filing a complaint (ECF No. 1) and application to proceed in forma pauperis (ECF No. 2). Based on the information provided in his application, the Court was unable to determine whether Plaintiff is entitled to proceed in forma pauperis. For instance, while Plaintiff states he is not presently employed, for past employment, he wrote in a number then crossed it out and wrote in his initials, so there is no information about his past employment. For question 2 (“Have you received, within the past twelve (12) months, any money from any of the following sources”), he checked yes for every box, then crossed out all the yesses and put in his initials – it is unclear what that means, since he didn’t check the no box for any of them. Plaintiff also states he is or was a radio music artist,…