Normanol Eurl v. North Park LLC

Filing 5

NOTICE to Plaintiff and ORDER. Signed by Judge Stefan R. Underhill on 9/12/2016. (Buttrick, A.)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT

NORMANOL EURL,
Plaintiff,

No. 3:16-cv-1533 (SRU)

v.
NORTH PARK LLC,
Defendant.
NOTICE TO PLAINTIFF AND ORDER
On September 12, 2016, Sebastien Guillot filed a complaint in the name of his company,
Normanol Eurl, and represented that he was acting pro se. (doc. 1) “Although 28 U.S.C. § 1654
(1976) provides that „[i]n all courts of the United States, the parties may plead and conduct their
own cases personally or by counsel,‟ it is established that a corporation, which is an artificial
entity that can only act through agents, cannot proceed pro se.” Jones v. Niagara Frontier
Transp. Auth., 722 F.2d 20, 22 (2d Cir. 1983) (collecting cases). Accordingly, the plaintiffcorporation Normanol Eurl shall retain a lawyer to appear on its behalf within thirty days of the
date of this Order, or the case will be dismissed.
So ordered.
Dated at Bridgeport, Connecticut, this 12th day of September 2016.

/s/ STEFAN R. UNDERHILL
Stefan R. Underhill
United States District Judge