Guillermo Rodriguez v. J. Steck

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• holding that a 12 district court may deny leave to proceed in forma pauperis where it “first provides a 13 plaintiff leave to amend the complaint or finds that amendment would be futile”
• “[A] district court’s denial of leave to proceed in forma pauper-is is an abuse of discretion unless the district court first provides a plaintiff leave to amend the complaint or finds that amendment would be futile.”
• “[The 8 Ninth Circuit has] held that a district court’s denial of leave to proceed in forma 9 pauperis is an abuse of discretion unless the district court first provides a plaintiff 10 leave to amend the complaint or finds that amendment would be futile.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).