Salemi

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Alireza SALEMI, Case No.: 25-cv-2934-AGS-MSB Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR

RECONSIDERATION (ECF 5) AND

v.

DENYING MOTION TO

CITY OF CARLSBAD, et al., ELECTRONICALLY FILE (ECF 6) Defendants. 8 Plaintiff Alireza Salemi, proceeding without an attorney, requests reconsideration of the denial of his petition to proceed in forma pauperis and has attached a now-complete IFP request. (Compare ECF with ECF 5.) Despite the motion’s styling as one for reconsideration, the Court will instead treat it as a new motion for IFP, since reconsideration is an “extraordinary remedy,” Kona Enters., Inc. v. Est. of Bishop, 229 F.3d 877, 890 (9th Cir. 2000), that “should be used sparingly,” Bennett v. United States, No. 23- cv-01140-BAS-BLM, 2025 WL 745870, at *2 (S.D. Cal. Feb. 13, 2025). Even under the lower standard for a new IFP motion, however, plaintiff has not met his burden to proceed IFP. Plaintiff’s new motion…