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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ZMH, Case No. 19-cv-03739-DMR Plaintiff, y ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WELLS FARGO BANK, Defendant. a Pro se minor Plaintiff ZMH filed a complaint and application to proceed in forma pauperis

|| (IFP”). [Docket Nos. 1, 2.] The case was filed by his “next friend,” Regional Advocacy Group. 14 || “[A] ‘next friend’ who is neither an attorney nor represented by one may not bring a lawsuit on © 15 || behalf of minor or incompetent plaintiffs.” Roe v. Suter, 165 F.3d 917 (9th Cir. 1998) (dismissing A || complaint brought by a non-attorney “next friend” of minor plaintiffs); see also Johns v. Cty. of

|| San Diego, 114 F.3d 874, 877 (9th Cir. 1997) (holding that “a parent or guardian cannot bring an 1g || action on behalf of a minor child without retaining a lawyer”). Here, Regional Advocacy Group || Purports to bring this action on behalf of Plaintiff, a minor. Nothing in the record…