(PC)Thomas
(PC)Thomas v. Pfeiffer
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 EDWARD THOMAS, No.: 1:19-cv-01489-NONE-EPG (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS
ORDER REQUIRING PLAINTIFF TO PAY
v. $400.00 FILING FEE IN FULL WITHIN
THIRTY DAYS
15 (Doc. No. 6)
C. PFEIFFER, et al.,
17 Defendants. 18 Plaintiff Edward Thomas, a state prison inmate, brought this civil rights action pro se under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that the prison officials are putting him in imminent danger. (Doc. No. 1 at ¶¶ 1, 5, 10, 12.) At issue before the court is whether the exception to the three- strikes rule under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) applies: that is, whether plaintiff must pay the required filing fee now to proceed with this action or is entitled to be granted in forma pauperis (“IFP”) status and pay the filing fee later. See Andrews v. Cervantes, 493 F.3d 1047, 1055 (9th Cir. 2007). In a previous case almost two years ago, then Chief District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill found that plaintiff had…