Ruiz

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ROGELIO MAY RUIZ, Case No.: 18-CV-330 TWR (MDD)

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING WITHOUT

v. PREJUDICE MOTION FOR

TRANSCRIPTS

L. ROMERO, et al.,

Defendants. (ECF No. 179) 16 Presently before the Court is Plaintiff Rogelio May Ruiz’s Motion: Request, Legal Transcripts (“Mot.,” ECF No. 179), in which Plaintiff “request[s] complete . . . legal transcripts [from his trial] with a[] copy translated in[to S]panish.” (See id. at 1.) Because Plaintiff is proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, (see, e.g., ECF No. 11), the Court construes the Motion as a request for transcripts at the government’s expense pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 753(f),1 which provides that “[f]ees for transcripts furnished . . . to persons permitted to appeal in forma pauperis shall . . . be paid by the United States if the trial judge 24 1 To the extent that Plaintiff seeks transcripts that are translated into Spanish, however, the Court…