(SS) Wagner v. Commissioner of Social Security

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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11 ERIC WILHELM WAGNER, Case No. 1:22-cv-01566-CDB (SS)

12 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING APPLICATION TO

PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS AND

13 v. DIRECTING CLERK OF COURT TO ISSUE

SUMMONS, SCHEDULING ORDER, AND

14 COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY, CONSENT OR REQUEST FOR

REASSIGNMENT DOCUMENTS

15 Defendant. (ECF No. 2) 16

17 18 Plaintiff Eric Wilhelm Wagner (“Plaintiff”) seeks judicial review of an administrative 19 decision of the Commissioner of Social Security denying Plaintiff’s claim for disability benefits 20 under the Social Security Act. (ECF No. 1). Pending before the Court is Plaintiff’s application 21 to proceed in forma pauperis. (ECF No. 2). For the following reasons, the Court finds issuance 22 of the new case documents and Plaintiff’s application to proceed in forma pauperis appropriate. 23 I. Proceeding in forma pauperis 24 The Court may authorize the commencement of an action without prepayment of fees “by 25 a person who submits an affidavit that includes a statement of all assts such…