Mendez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

10 CAROLL KING MENDEZ, Case No. 20-cv-00002-BAS-AHG 11 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR LEAVE TO PROCEED IN FORMA v. PAUPERIS 13 LOANME, INC., JONATHAN [ECF No. 2] WILLIAMS, DOES 1-50, Defendants. 16 On January 2, 2020, Plaintiff Caroll King Mendez, proceeding pro se, filed a complaint against Defendants LoanMe, Inc. and Jonathan Williams, alleging that Defendants “intentionally and deliberately discriminated on the basis of his Hispanic ethnicity with a predatory loan that was funded without any underwriting safeguards for the sole purpose of failure.” (Compl. at 5, ECF No. 1.) On the same day, Plaintiff also filed a motion seeking leave to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP Motion”). (ECF No. 2.) For the following reasons, the Court GRANTS Plaintiff’s IFP motion. Under 28 U.S.C. § 1915, a litigant who is unable to pay the filing fee to commence a legal…