Lozano

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ALFONSO LOZANO, Case No.: 19cv884 DMS (JLB)

Plaintiff,

ORDER (1) DISMISSING CASE

v. WITHOUT PREJUDICE AND (2)

DENYING REQUEST FOR FEE

REGGIE REIGHLEY; ARTHUR

WAIVER

STEPHENS

15 Defendants.

17 The Court is in receipt of a letter from Plaintiff dated April 23, 2020, in which he states, “I no longer want to follow this case,” and requests that the Court waive payment of the remainder of his filing fee. (ECF No. 18.) The Court construes Plaintiff’s statement that he no longer wants to follow this case as a request to voluntarily dismiss the case, which request is granted. As to Plaintiff’s request to waive the remainder of his filing fee, that request is denied. “Reacting to ‘a sharp rise in prisoner litigation,’ Woodford v. Ngo, 548 U.S. 81, 84 (2006), Congress in 1996 enacted the PLRA, which installed a variety of measures ‘designed to filter out the bad claims [filed by prisoners] and facilitate…