RIGGS v. STEWART
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Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
DUBLIN DIVISION
DANIEL EUGENE RIGGS, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) CV 323-097 ) VICTORIA STEWART, Deputy Warden ) of Security, and JERMAINE WHITE, ) Regional Director, ) ) Defendants. )
MAGISTRATE JUDGE’S REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION
Plaintiff, incarcerated at Valdosta State Prison in Valdosta, Georgia, commenced the above-captioned case pro se and requested permission to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”). After receiving this case from the Middle District of Georgia, (doc. no. 6), on December 12, 2023, the Court directed Plaintiff to return his Prisoner Trust Fund Account Statement and Consent to Collection of Fees forms within thirty days and advised Plaintiff all prisoners, even those proceeding IFP, must pay the filing fee of $350.00 in full. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(1). Plaintiff was cautioned failure to respond would be an election to have this case voluntarily dismissed without prejudice. (See doc. no. 7.) The time to respond has passed, and Plaintiff has not submitted the documents required by the Court’s December 12th Order. Nor has he provided the Court with any explanation why he has not complied. Plaintiff cannot proceed IFP unless he submits the requisite Trust Fund Account Statement and consents to collection of the entire $350.00 filing fee in installments. Wilson v. Sargent, 313 F.3d 1315, 1319, 1321 (11th Cir. 2002) (citing 28 U.S.C. § 1915). Plaintiff has been warned that failing to return the necessary IFP papers would be an election to have his case voluntarily dismissed. As Plaintiff has neither fulfilled the requirements for proceeding IFP, nor paid the full filing fee, the Court REPORTS and RECOMMENDS this case be DISMISSED without prejudice and this civil action be CLOSED. SO REPORTED and RECOMMENDED this 30th day of January, 2024, at Augusta, Georgia.
LA UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
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