(HC) Perkins v. Superior Court for the County of San Francisco
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOHN PERKINS, No. 2:19-cv-1493-EFB P Petitioner, v. ORDER SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE COUNTY
OF SAN FRANCISCO,
15 Respondent.
17 Mr. Perkins is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel. This action was opened when the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit transferred his petition for a writ of habeas corpus to this court. However, Mr. Perkins did not properly commence a civil action because the petition was not signed and he had neither paid the filing fee nor sought leave to proceed in forma pauperis. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 3; Rule 3, Rules Governing § 2254 Cases; Woodford v. Garceau, 538 U.S. 202, 203 (2003). On August 14, 2019, the court informed him that it could not review his petition because he had not signed it. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 11(a) (requiring that “[e]very pleading, written motion, and other paper . . . be signed by at least one attorney of record in the attorney’s name—or by a party personally…