Hill
Hill v. Kerns
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
CYMEYON V. HILL,
Case No. 20-cv-04796-YGR (PR) Plaintiff, 8 Vv. ORDER OF DISMISSAL WITHOUT PREJUDICE MICHAEL KERN, Defendant. 11 a On July 17, 2020, Plaintiff, a civil detainee, filed the present pro se civil rights complaint
|] under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
v In an Order dated August 6, 2020, the Court noted that because Plaintiff is a civil detainee, © || then he is not a “prisoner” subject to the provisions of the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act. Dkt. 3 at 1 (citing Page v. Torrey, 201 F.3d 1136, 1140 (9th Cir. 2000)). Thus, the Court directed
= || Plaintiff to file a non-prisoner application for leave to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”). The
|| Court informed Plaintiff that his action could not go forward until he paid the filing fee or filed a || completed non-prisoner IFP application. The Court directed the Clerk of the Court to send 20 || Plaintiff a blank…