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LOCAL COURT RULES - Western District of Oklahoma

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is available from the Court Clerk’s <strong>of</strong>fice or on the Court’s website. Counsel and pro selitigants are required to number each party separately in the caption <strong>of</strong> the initiatingdocument, plaintiffs consecutively and defendants consecutively. Pro se litigants are alsorequired to complete the form furnished by the Court for issuance <strong>of</strong> summons.LCvR3.2Advance Payment <strong>of</strong> Filing Fees.Except as provided in LCvR3.3 or by order <strong>of</strong> the Court in a specific case, the Clerk<strong>of</strong> this Court shall require payment <strong>of</strong> the filing fees before any civil action, suit, orproceeding is filed.LCvR3.3(a)In Forma Pauperis Applications.An applicant who seeks leave to proceed without prepayment <strong>of</strong> the filing feesmust, at the time <strong>of</strong> initiating the civil action, suit, or proceeding, submit an application toproceed in forma pauperis on forms approved by this Court and supplied by the Clerk uponrequest. Failure to use such form or to furnish the Court with the equivalent informationrequired by the form will result in the application being stricken.(b)In the case <strong>of</strong> a prisoner, such application must also include a certificateexecuted by an authorized <strong>of</strong>ficer <strong>of</strong> the appropriate penal institution stating: (1) the amount<strong>of</strong> money or securities currently on deposit to the prisoner’s credit in any institutionalaccount; (2) the average monthly deposits to the prisoner’s account for the 6-month periodimmediately preceding the filing <strong>of</strong> the action; and (3) the average monthly balance in theprisoner’s account for the 6-month period immediately preceding the filing <strong>of</strong> the action.(c)In the event the prisoner has been in more than one penal institution during the6-month period immediately preceding the filing <strong>of</strong> the action, the prisoner must obtain therequired certificate from the appropriate <strong>of</strong>ficial at each institution.(d)Pending the Court’s ruling on the application, the civil action, suit, orproceeding will be deemed conditionally filed.-2-

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