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5 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

6 GREG GROTEMEYER, Case No. 1:21-cv-01764-NONE-EPG 7 Plaintiff, ORDER RE: NOTICE OF VOLUNTARY 8

DISMISSAL OF ENTIRE ACTION

v. 9 (ECF No. 4) 10 DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY

INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE,

11 Defendant. 12

13 Plaintiff Greg Grotemeyer (“Plaintiff”), a state prisoner proceeding pro se, filed his 14 complaint on December 13, 2021, along with a motion to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”). 15 (ECF Nos. 1, 2.) On December 16, 2021, the Court entered an order denying Plaintiff’s motion 16 to proceed IFP without prejudice because Plaintiff only submitted the first page of his IFP 17 application. (ECF No. 3.) The Court directed Plaintiff to submit another completed IFP 18 application or to pay the filing fee within 30 days. (Id.) 19 On January 3, 2021, Plaintiff filed a request that his case be “discontinued” because he 20 “no longer wants to proceed with [the] Complaint[.]” (ECF No. 4.) Plaintiff also requests that 21 no fees be charged against him because he does not have the finances to pay. (Id.) 22 The Court construes Plaintiff’s January 3, 2021 filing as a notice of voluntary dismissal 23 24 pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A)(i).1 Therefore, this action has been 25 terminated. Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(A)(i); Wilson v. City of San Jose, 111 F.3d 688, 692 (9th 26 27 1 Plaintiff does not state whether the dismissal is with or without prejudice. (See ECF No. 4.) “Unless the notice or stipulation states otherwise, the dismissal is without prejudice. But if the plaintiff previously dismissed any 28 federal- or state-court action based on or including the same claim, a notice of dismissal operates as an adjudication on the merits.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(B). 1 || Cir. 1997).? Accordingly, the Clerk of Court is respectfully directed to assign a district judge to 2 || this case for the purposes of closing the case and then to close the case. 3 4 || IT IS SO ORDERED. >|! Dated: _ January 4, 2022 [spe ey 6 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 As Plaintiff’s case has been dismissed, no filing fees have been charged.