Bettis

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

10 11 KIRELL FRANCIS BETTIS TRUST and No: 1:20-cv-00148-NONE-SKO KIRELL F. BETTIS-TAYLOR,

ORDER ADDRESSING JUNE 12, 2020

Plaintiffs, FILING

v. (Doc. No. 17) INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE (IRS),

K. GREEN, and A. RASCHKE,

16 Defendants. 17 This case was closed on March 27, 2020, after plaintiff, who is subject to the three strikes provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), failed to pay the required $400.00 filing fee in full. (Doc. No. 11.) On April 27, 2020, the court denied plaintiff’s motion for reconsideration, but afforded plaintiff one additional opportunity to pay the required filing fee, indicating that if plaintiff failed to pay the fee by May 11, 2020, the case would remain closed. (Doc. No. 13.) On May 7, 2020, plaintiff filed a document with the court that appeared to be a promissory note in an apparent attempt to satisfy the requirement that he pay the filling fee to proceed with this action. (Doc. No. 14.) That method of payment was rejected by the Clerk of…