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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 LANCE WILLIAMS, Case No.: 1:25-cv-01246-SKO Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING APPLICATION TO

PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS

v. (Doc. 2) N. VERA, et al.,

Defendants. 16 Plaintiff Lance Williams is appearing pro se in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff commenced this action by filing a complaint and an application to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP) on September 22, 2025. I. INTRODUCTION The address reflected on Plaintiff’s complaint and his IFP application, a post office box in Tarzana, California, reveals that Plaintiff was not in custody at the time he commenced this 23 action.1 (See Docs. 1 at 1 & 2 at 1.) Further, Plaintiff does not indicate he is incarcerated in his IFP application. (Doc. 2 at 1). Therefore, neither the filing fee provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b), nor § 1915(c)’s “three strikes” bar apply to this case. See Andrews v. King, 398 F.3d 1113, 1122 (9th Cir. 2005). And while Plaintiff may not be…