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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 RAYMOND ALFORD BRADFORD, Case No. 21-cv-02133-PJH

Plaintiff,

ORDER REOPENING CASE AND FOR

v. PLAINTIFF TO SHOW CAUSE

R. DAY, Re: Dkt. No. 7 Defendant.

13 Plaintiff, a state prisoner, filed a pro se civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The case was dismissed without prejudice due to plaintiff’s failure to file an application to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”), pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915. Plaintiff has filed a motion to proceed IFP and seeks to reopen this case. 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 …