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VIRSNIEKS v. WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT IF HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES   SANDRIGE ... TREATMENT CENTER et alDoc. 6
Case: 3:08-cv-00313-bbc        Document #: 6         Filed: 06/17/2008        Page 1 of 3
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN
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                                                                                                                                  ALBERT M. VIRSNIEKS,
                                                                                                                                                                                              Petitioner,                                                               ORDER
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    08-cv-313-bbc
                                                                                                                                                         v.
WISCONSIN DEPART. OF HEALTH
AND FAMILY SERVICES, SANDRIDGE
SECURE TREATMENT CENTER and
JOHN AND JANE DOE[S], Numbered
1 to 100, Employees of the State of
Wisconsin whose names are currently
unknown,
Respondents.
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In  an  order  entered  in  this  case  on  June  3,  2008,  I  stayed  a  decision  whether
petitioner may proceed in forma pauperis and gave him until June 24, 2008, in which to
submit a resident account statement for the six-month period immediately preceding the
filing of the complaint.   Petitioner has submitted the required statement and a check for
$14.   In a letter accompanying the payment, petitioner says that the $14 check is for the
“approximate average of last month’s balance.”   Unfortunately, petitioner’s $14 payment is
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insufficient to cover the necessary prepayment of the $350 filing fee.
Petitioner appears to believe that he will be required to pay the average balance for
a one-month period only.   However, in the June 3 order, I told petitioner that this court
would calculate 20% of his average monthly income and 20% of his average monthly balance
for the six-month period immediately preceding the filing of the complaint.   He would be
required to prepay the greater of the two figures.
From petitioner’s six-month statement I have calculated 20% of his average monthly
balance to be $44.65.                                                                              (Petitioner’s statement does not show the deposits to his account.
Therefore, I am  unable  to  calculate his average monthly income.)    This means that in
addition to petitioner’s $14 payment, he will be required to submit a second payment of
$30.65.    After the court receives the payment, I will take petitioner’s complaint under
advisement for a determination under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2) whether the action or any
portion of it must be dismissed as frivolous or malicious, for failure to state a claim on which
relief may be granted or because petitioner seeks monetary relief against a defendant who
is immune from such relief.
ORDER
IT  IS  ORDERED  that  petitioner  qualifies  financially  for  pauper  status  on  the
condition that he submit an additional payment of the  $350 filing fee in the amount of
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$30.65.   He is to submit a check or money order made payable to the clerk of court in that
amount on or before July 7, 2008.   If, by July 7, 2008, petitioner fails to prepay the amount
he has been ordered to pay, I will dismiss this case for his failure to prosecute it.
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Entered this 17                                                                                  day of June, 2008.
                                                                                                 BY THE COURT:
/s/
BARBARA B. CRABB
District Judge
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