USA v. Holmes

Filing 28

ORDER instructing Clerk to waive fees for access to records. Signed by Judge Joseph C. Spero on August 27, 2015. (jcslc2, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 8/27/2015)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Case No. 04-cv-00451-MAG (JCS)

Plaintiff,
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v.

ORDER INSTRUCTING CLERK TO
WAIVE RECORDS FEES

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GENEVA HOLMES,

Re: Dkt. Nos. 22, 23, 24

Defendant.

United States District Court
Northern District of California

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Defendant Geneva Holmes (now Geneva Holmes-James) filed three handwritten letters

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(dkts. 22−24) in June and July of this year requesting that the Court waive a $64 fee for Ms.

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Homes-James to obtain documents previously filed in this case, in which default judgment was

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entered against her in 2004 and satisfied in March of this year. In a previous Order, the Court

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instructed Ms. Holmes-James to file an application to proceed in forma pauperis. Dkt. 25. She

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has now done so. Dkt. 27. Although Ms. Holmes-James’s responses are difficult to follow and

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often do not answer the questions posed in the form, she has made a sufficient showing of

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indigence for the Court to determine that she is unable to pay the fee to access her records without

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undue hardship. Accordingly, the request for a fee waiver is GRANTED. The Clerk is instructed

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to provide Ms. Holmes-James with copies of any documents previously filed in this action that she

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requests, without requiring payment of any fee.

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IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: August 27, 2015
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JOSEPH C. SPERO
Chief Magistrate Judge