Collier
Joe Robert Collier v. James Hill, Warden, et al.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOE ROBERT COLLIER, Case No.: 25-cv-3487-AJB-MMP
Petitioner,
ORDER DISMISSING CASE
v. WITHOUT PREJUDICE AND
DENYING MOTIONS FOR IFP
JAMES HILL, Warden, et al.,
WITHOUT PREJUDICE AS MOOT
Respondents. 16 On October 20, 2025, Petitioner Joe Robert Collier, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, filed a complaint on a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights form in the Northern District of California, which was docketed as a Petition for a Writ of Mandamus filed under 28 U.S.C. § 1651. (Doc. No. 1; see also docket in N.D. Cal. Case No. 3:25-cv-08946-LB.)1 On October 20, 2025, Collier also filed a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”). (Doc. No. 2.) After the Clerk provided notice to Collier of both the filing fee for a civil action and that he had not submitted his IFP motion on the proper form (Doc. No. 3), on November 7, 2025, Collier filed a second IFP motion (Doc. No. 6). On November 19,