Hines

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JAMES LYNN HINES, Case No.: 23-CV-308 JLS (JLB)

Plaintiff,

ORDER ORDERING PLAINTIFF TO

v. PAY FILING FEE OR MOVE TO

PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS

GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., and

DOES 1 through 6, (ECF No. 1) Defendants. 16 17 Presently before the Court is Plaintiff James Lynn Hines’s Complaint (“Compl.,” ECF No. 1). Plaintiff, who is proceeding pro se, has neither paid the filing fee pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a) nor applied to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”). All parties instituting any civil action, suit, or proceeding in a district court of the United States, except an application for writ of habeas corpus, must pay a filing fee of $402. See 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a). An action may proceed despite a plaintiff’s failure to prepay the entire fee only if she is granted leave to proceed IFP pursuant to 28 U.S.C.

26 In addition to the $350 statutory fee, civil litigants must pay an…