Wilson v. Alma, City of et al

Filing 10

ORDER adopting Report and Recommendations in toto, and plaintiff's Objections 9 thereto are overruled. Further the plaintiff is ordered to pay the filing fee for this case within ten days of the date of this Order, failing which his case will be dismissed. Signed by Honorable Jimm Larry Hendren on May 21, 2009. (lw)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS FORT SMITH DIVISION VAUGHN DAMON WILSON v. CITY OF ALMA, ARKANSAS; ALMA CITY COURT; and THE STATE OF ARKANSAS ORDER Now on this 21st day of May, 2009, comes on for consideration the Report And Recommendation Of The Magistrate Judge (document #8) and plaintiff's Objections thereto (document #9), and from said documents the Court finds and orders as follows: 1. pauperis Plaintiff (ifp) applied in for, and was granted, status in forma a Civil No. 09-2025 PLAINTIFF

DEFENDANTS

status

this

case.

That

allows

qualified person to file a lawsuit in United States District Court without payment of the $350 filing fee. 2. United States Magistrate Judge James R. Marschewski

subsequently determined that additional information was needed with regard to plaintiff's ifp application, and a hearing was conducted on April 29, 2009. Judge Marschewski reported plaintiff testified at the hearing that when he signed the ifp application, he had about $20,000 in Federal Reserve Notes in a bank account. Based on that testimony, Judge Marschewski recommended that

plaintiff's ifp status be revoked, and that he be given ten days to pay the filing fee for this case, failing which it should be dismissed.

3.

Plaintiff objects to the Report And Recommendation,

contending that because he filed his case "at jurisdiction of common law, the court would be unlawfully operating outside of its jurisdiction, at loss of judicial immunity, to make any thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts." (Emphasis in original.) Federal Reserve Notes, he contends, are merely

"obligations" or "securities" of the United States. 4. Plaintiff's objection is without merit. Federal Reserve

Notes are legal tender, U.S. v. Shields, 642 F.2d 230 (8th Cir. 1981), and are accepted by the United States District Courts in payment of filing fees. Plaintiff has some 20,000 of these

Federal Reserve Notes, and it would make a mockery of the ifp system to allow him to proceed without using 350 of them to pay his filing fee. IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the Report And Recommendation Of The Magistrate Judge (document #8) is adopted in toto, and

plaintiff's Objections thereto (document #9) are overruled. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that plaintiff pay the filing fee for this case within ten days of the date of this Order, failing which his case will be dismissed. IT IS SO ORDERED. /s/ Jimm Larry Hendren JIMM LARRY HENDREN UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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