IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS CENTRAL DIVISION

COVALAS ACKWARD PLAINTIFF ADC # 132234

v. No. 4:24-cv-1036-DPM

JOHN FELTS, Chair, Arkansas Post Prison Transfer Board; BRENT MORGAN, Member, Arkansas Post Prison Transfer Board; LONA MCCASTLAIN, Director, Arkansas Post Prison Transfer Board; WILLIE ROBINSON, Member, Arkansas Post Prison Transfer Board; ANDY SHOCK, Member, Arkansas Post Prison Transfer Board; WENDY LYALS, Member, Arkansas Post Prison Transfer Board; SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, Governor, Arkansas; and DOUG SMITH, Member, Arkansas Post Prison Transfer Board DEFENDANTS

ORDER 1. Ackward hasn’t paid the filing and administrative fees ($405) or filed an application to proceed in forma pauperis. He must do one or the other by 3 February 2025. If he doesn’t, his case will be dismissed without prejudice. LOCAL RULE 5.5(c)(2). 2. The Court directs the Clerk to mail Ackward an application to proceed in forma pauperis and a blank § 1983 form. If the Court grants him permission to proceed in forma pauperis, then the administrative fee will be waived, but Ackward will have to pay the $350 filing fee in monthly installments taken from his prisoner account.

(b). 3. | Ackward’s motion for the appointment of counsel, Doc. 2, is denied without prejudice. The case is young and not yet screened. Plummer v. Grimes,

(8th Cir. 1996). So Ordered. AIP ran stool! 4 D.P. Marshall Jr. United States District Judge

3 January 2025

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