Garcia

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 4 RAYMOND ALFORD BRADFORD, Case No. 21-cv-01164-PJH

Plaintiff,

ORDER FOR PLAINTIFF TO SHOW

v. CAUSE

E. GARCIA, et al., Defendants.

10 Plaintiff, a state prisoner, has filed a pro se civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff has also filed an application to proceed in forma pauperis pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915. The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (“PLRA”), provides that a prisoner may not bring a civil action or appeal a civil judgment under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 “if the prisoner has, on three or more prior occasions, while incarcerated or detained in any facility, brought an action or appeal in a court of the United States that was dismissed on the grounds that it is frivolous, malicious, or fails to state a claim upon which relief may be granted, unless the prisoner is under imminent danger of serious physical injury.” 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g). The phrase “fails to state a claim on which relief may be granted,” as used in…