Valenzuela

I. INTRODUCTION

10 Plaintiff, a state prisoner, filed the present pro se prisoner complaint under 42 U.S.C. 11 § 1983. Plaintiff submitted a completed in forma pauperis (“IFP”) application and his six-month 12 prisoner trust account statement, but he did not include his Certificate of Funds. Dkt. 4. 13 Thereafter, this case was dismissed without prejudice based on IFP deficiency due to Plaintiff’ 14 failure to provide his Certificate of Funds even though he was granted multiple extensions of time 15 to do so. Dkt. 11. However, at the same time the Court’s dismissal order was being processed, 16 Plaintiff filed an extension of time request as well as another IFP application. Dkts. 9, 10. 17 Plaintiff had also filed another IFP application and attempted to submit his Certificate of Funds, 18 but Plaintiff signed it himself instead of requesting an authorized officer to do so. See Dkt. 10 at 19 7. As mentioned, the dismissal order was already being processed prior to the e-filing of these 20 aforementioned documents in the Court’s electronic case management filing system and, thus, it 21 was processed before a ruling was made on Plaintiff’s request for an extension of time.…