Conway et al v. Chicago Housing Authority et al

Filing 25

MEMORANDUM Order Signed by the Honorable Milton I. Shadur on 5/11/2012:Mailed notice(srn, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
TIFFANY CONWAY,
Plaintiff,
v.
CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY,
Defendant.

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No.

11 C 7257

MEMORANDUM ORDER
Counsel for defendant Chicago Housing Authority (“CHA”) has
noticed up for presentment on May 22 (!) what he characterizes as
a Motion for Enlargement of Time, explaining that he had
mistakenly diaried the due date of the CHA’s responsive pleading
as May 27 rather than March 27 of this year.

In addition,

counsel explains that he is busy on other matters (unlike other
lawyers, of course) and that he expects to have a motion to
dismiss on file “within 21 days of the filing of the instant
Motion for Extension.”
This Court will take account of counsel’s further statement
that he will be out of the office between May 10 and May 15, but
his other stated reasons for delay are unpersuasive.

Although

this pro se action took a long time to get to the point of
service of process on the CHA on March 6, 2012 (this memorandum
order will not cite the background events that led this to become
a one-plaintiff-one-defendant lawsuit), the requested further
delay is unreasonable.

Accordingly defense counsel is ordered to

file his responsive pleading on or before May 25, and a status
hearing is set for 9 a.m. June 8, 2012.

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Milton I. Shadur
Senior United States District Judge
Date: May 11, 2012

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