Taylor v. City Of Chicago et al

Filing 20

MEMORANDUM Order Signed by the Honorable Milton I. Shadur on 1/17/2012:Mailed notice(srn, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
JOSHUA TAYLOR,
Plaintiff,
v.
CITY OF CHICAGO, et al.,
Defendants.

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No.

11 C 7047

MEMORANDUM ORDER
Shortly before the most recent status hearing in this 42
U.S.C. §1983 (“Section 1983”) action, the Chicago Corporation
Counsel’s Office filed the Answer of several Chicago police
officer defendants to the Complaint brought against them and
others by Joshua Taylor.

Because the courtesy copy of that

responsive pleading had not been delivered to this Court’s
chambers before the status hearing, this Court had not had an
opportunity to review it before that hearing.

It has now done

so, and this memorandum is issued because of the form of that
courtesy copy.
This is the second time in the immediate past that the
Corporation Counsel has delivered a copy of a pleading that is
printed on both the front and the back of the tendered pages.
This Court is all in favor of preserving the environment by
cutting down fewer trees (one of the collateral benefits of
substituting electronic filing for hard-copy filing), but
pleadings that are stapled don’t readily lend themselves to

convenient reading in that format.
Thus this Court has had to resort to photocopying the police
officers’ Answer, so that this time its chambers file contains 23
sheets of paper rather than the 12 that had been delivered
(ironically resulting in the use of more rather than less paper).
This memorandum is issued as a respectful request that the recent
change to two-sided documents as Corporation Counsel submissions
be abandoned, at least in cases assigned to this Court.

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Milton I. Shadur
Senior United States District Judge
Date:

January 17, 2012

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