Balzarini

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MICHAEL BALZARINI,

Case No. 20-cv-07833-RS (PR) Plaintiff, 12 v. ORDER OF DISMISSAL 13 GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., 14 Defendants.

16 INTRODUCTION Plaintiff is barred from bringing this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action in forma pauperis because he has filed at least three federal actions that were dismissed as frivolous, malicious, or on grounds that they failed to state a claim for relief. He was ordered to show cause why pauper status should not be barred under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), but his response is insufficient. Accordingly, this federal civil rights action is DISMISSED without prejudice to plaintiff bringing his claims in a new paid complaint. BACKGROUND Plaintiff, a state prisoner and frequent litigant in federal court, filed this federal civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 along with a motion to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP) under 28 U.S.C. § 1915. (Dkt. No. 1, 4, and 9.) The…