Schleicher

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 GABRIEL MATTHEW GUILLEN, No. 1:23-cv-01679 JLT GSA (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS, DISMISSING THE

v. ACTION WITHOUT PREJUDICE, AND

DENYING THE APPLICATION TO

TYLER SCHLEICHER, et al., PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS AS MOOT Defendants. (Docs. 2, 8) 16 Plaintiff was a county jail inmate when he initiated this action, asserting violations of his civil rights by officers with the “Special Enforcement Unit” of the Bakersfield Police Department. (Doc. 1.) At the time Plaintiff filed his complaint, he also filed a motion to proceed in forma pauperis. (Doc. 2.) However, the magistrate judge found the motion was deficient because it was incomplete and was unsigned. (Doc. 4 at 1.) Therefore, the magistrate judge directed Plaintiff to file a motion that cured the identified deficiencies or to pay the filing fee. (Id. at 2.) After Plaintiff failed to respond, the magistrate judge issued an order…