(HC) West v. California Correctional Health Care Services
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOHN DANIEL WEST, No. 2:21-cv-0330-EFB P Petitioner, v. ORDER CALIFORNIA CORRECTIONAL
HEALTH CARE SERVICES,
15 Respondent.
17 Petitioner is a state prisoner without counsel seeking a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 18 28 U.S.C. § 2254. However, he has neither filed an application for leave to proceed in forma 19 pauperis nor paid the required filing fee ($5.00). See 28 U.S.C. §§ 1914(a); 1915(a). Petitioner 20 will be provided the opportunity to either submit a request to proceed in forma pauperis or submit 21 the appropriate filing fee.1 22 23 1 Federal courts offer two main avenues to relief on complaints related to one’s imprisonment – a petition for habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, and a civil rights complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Challenges to the validity of one’s confinement or the 25 duration of one’s confinement are properly brought in a habeas action, whereas requests for relief turning on the circumstances of one’s confinement are…