Warden

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 WAYNE TAYLOR III, No. 2:25-cv-0398 TLN AC P 12 Petitioner, 13 v. ORDER 14 WARDEN, et al., 15 Respondents. 16 17 Petitioner is a California state prisoner proceeding pro se with an application for a writ of 18 habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Pending before the court is petitioner’s ex parte 19 motion for certified copies of case records on docket, in which petitioner seeks, pursuant to 28 20 U.S.C. § 2250, certified copies of (1) the entire civil docket sheet, (2) all of respondents’ filings 21 entered on the Civil Docket, and (3) all orders entered. ECF No. 52 at 1. Petitioner claims to 22 need certified copies of these documents in order to prepare for and present an appeal to the Ninth 23 Circuit. Id. at 2. 24 The fact that the court has granted petitioner leave to proceed in forma pauperis does not 25 entitle him to free copies of documents from the Court. Under 28 U.S.C. § 2250, in any 26 application for a writ of habeas corpus where…