Dirkse

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 THOMAS ROMO, No. 2:24-cv-1893 AC P 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER 14 JEFF DIRKSE, 15 Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiff is a county inmate who filed this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 18 without a lawyer. He has requested leave to proceed without paying the full filing fee for this 19 action, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915. ECF No. 2. Plaintiff has submitted a declaration showing 20 that he cannot afford to pay the entire filing fee. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(2); ECF Nos. 2, 11. 21 Accordingly, plaintiff’s motion to proceed in forma pauperis is granted.1 22 //// 23 //// 24 1 This means that plaintiff is allowed to pay the $350.00 filing fee in monthly installments that 25 are taken from the inmate’s trust account rather than in one lump sum. 28 U.S.C. §§ 1914(a), 26 1915(b)(1). As part of this order, the prison is required to remove an initial partial filing fee from plaintiff’s trust account. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(1). A separate order directed to…