Mendoza

MEMORANDUM

Former California state prisoner Robert P. Benyamini appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action for failure to pay the required filing fee, after revoking Benyam-ini’s in forma pauperis status on the ground that he has “three strikes” under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (g). We have jurisdiction under 28. U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo the district court’s interpretation and application of 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (g), Andrews v. Cervantes, 493 F.3d 1047, 1052 (9th Cir.2007), and for an abuse of discretion its denial of leave to proceed in formal pauperis, O’Loughlin v. Doe, 920 F.2d 614, 616 (9th Cm.1990). We affirm.

The district court did not abuse its discretion by revoking Benyamini’s in forma pauperis status because three of Benyami-ni’s prior § 1983 actions were dismissed for failure to state a claim, and Benyamini did not plausibly allege that he was “under imminent danger of serious physical injury” at the time that he lodged the complaint. 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (g); see also Andrews, 493 F.3d at 1055 (an exception to the three-strikes rule exists only where “the complaint makes a plausible allegation that the prisoner faced ‘imminent…