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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOHN CHARLES BEGBIE FOWLER, Case No. 2:22-cv-02131-JDP (PC) Plaintiff, v. ORDER; FINDINGS AND

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JAROLD MARC,

Defendant. 16 This action was opened when John Fowler submitted an unsigned complaint. ECF No. 1. On December 8, 2022, I notified Mr. Fowler that he had not properly commenced a civil action because he had not signed the complaint, and that he needed either to submit a complete application to proceed in forma pauperis or to pay the filing fee. ECF No. 4; see Fed. R. Civ. P. 3 (“A civil action is commenced by filing a complaint with the court.”). I granted him thirty days to comply with that order and warned him that failure to do so would result in this case being closed. Id. Mr. Fowler failed to comply with that order by the deadline; accordingly, on March 3, 2023, I ordered him to show cause for why this action should not dismissed. ECF No. 5. To date, Mr. Fowler has not complied with either the…