Manalisay

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JAMES MANALISAY, Case No. 22-cv-04701-VC

Plaintiff,

ORDER REVOKING IN FORMA

v. PAUPERIS STATUS ON APPEAL

BOYDINE HALL, et al., Re: Dkt. Nos. 40, 43 Defendants.

The Court finds that revocation of in forma pauperis status is appropriate in this case because Manalisay’s appeal is frivolous. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(3); Hooker v. American Airlines, 302 F.3d 1091, 1092 (9th Cir. 2002). As explained in the Court’s order dismissing the case with prejudice, Manalisay’s allegations—regarding constitutional violations by administrative actors associated with his child support proceedings—are nearly impenetrable. See Dkt. No. 38. He seems not to recognize the authority of administrative law judges, and he characterizes state court orders regarding his child support obligations as mere “contracts” to which he is not bound for not having assented to them. On that basis, he challenges the actions of Department of Child Support Services agents, who allegedly levied his bank accounts, investment retirement accounts, and COVID-19 stimulus checks pursuant to those court orders, as…