Oliver v. County of Chatham et al

Filing 8

ORDER denying 7 Motion for leave to file through the Courts CM/ECF program. Signed by Magistrate Judge G. R. Smith on 6/13/17. (wwp)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
SAVANNAH DIVISION
ANTHONY OLIVER,
Plaintiff,
v.
COUNTY OF CHATHAM, et al.,
Defendant.

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CV417-101

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ORDER
Plaintiff Anthony Oliver, proceeding pro se in this civil rights
action, requests electronic filing and notification access through the
Court’s Case Management and Electronic Case Filing (CM/ECF)
system. Doc. 7. Pro se plaintiffs are unable to use this system absent
court authorization, which is sparingly granted. Having reviewed the
motion and considered the circumstances, the Court does not find good
cause exists to allow plaintiff CM/ECF access. Oliver may prosecute
this lawsuit via the U.S. Mail and by accessing public filings through
PACER.

See www.pacer.gov (Public Access to Court Electronic

Records).
Oliver is reminded that litigants have a duty to actively monitor
the docket, Yeschick v. Mineta, 675 F.3d 622, 629-30 (6th Cir. 2012),

and he must participate fully, complying with both the Local Rules and
the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Loren v. Sasser, 309 F.3d 1296,
1304 (11th Cir. 2002) (“Despite construction leniency afforded pro se
litigants, we nevertheless have required them to conform to procedural
rules.”); Moon v. Newsome, 863 F.2d 835, 837 (11th Cir. 1989) (a pro se
litigant “is subject to the relevant law and rules of court including the
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure”); GJR Investments v. County of

Escambia, Fla., 132 F.3d 1359, 1369 (11th Cir. 1998) (the leniency to
which pro se litigants are entitled “does not give a court license to serve
as de facto counsel for a party . . . or to rewrite an otherwise deficient
pleading in order to sustain an action.”); see also S.D. Ga. L. R.
(available at http://www.gasd.uscourts.gov/lr/lr1.htm); Fed. R. Civ. P.
(available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp).
SO ORDERED, this

13th day of June, 2017.

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