Ogunsalu

MEMORANDUM **

Cornelius Ogunsalu appeals a district court order denying him leave to proceed *523 in forma pauperis in his action for libel, medical malpractice, and alleged violations of the First Amendment and unspecified provisions of the United States Code. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

Ogunsalu seeks to recover $1,000,000 in damages from several defendants who were involved in a previous lawsuit that Ogunsalu brought against his former employer, Roadway Express, Inc. Here, Ogunsalu again sued Roadway Express, Inc., along with his former employer’s pri- or counsel, an expert witness from the prior case, as well as that witness’s employer. Thus, in the current suit, Ogunsalu alleges that defendant Dr. Mohan S. Nair, an employee of defendants UCLA School of Medicine and Barrington Psychiatric Center, made libelous statements and committed medical malpractice as an expert witness presented by defendant counsel Jones Day and others on behalf of defendant Roadway Express, Inc., in the previous lawsuit.

The district court denied Ogunsalu’s motion to proceed in forma pauperis, ruling that the receipt of $728 per month from Social Security and…