Montgomery v. America's Servicing Company

Filing 6

MEMORANDUM Order Signed by the Honorable Milton I. Shadur on 1/5/2012. (ma,)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
BETTIE MONTGOMERY,
Plaintiff,
v.
AMERICA’S SERVICING COMPANY,
Defendant.

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No.

11 C 9196

MEMORANDUM ORDER
Bettie Montgomery (“Montgomery”) has submitted a Verified
Complaint charging America’s Servicing Company with the asserted
violation of several federal statutes “based upon Defendants’
[sic] failure to respond to Plaintiff’s Qualified Written Request
in accordance with the law.”

Montgomery has accompanied the

Complaint and its bulky exhibits with an In Forma Pauperis
Application (“Application”), for which purpose she used the form
made available by the Clerk’s Office.
This Court’s examination of the latter document reveals that
Montgomery is not seeking to be relieved from payment of the
filing fee as such, but rather to obtain the right “to proceed
without full prepayment of fees.”

At the bottom of the first

page of the Application, Montgomery has handwritten:
I Bettie Montgomery need thirty days to pay the full
following filing fees.
That request is of course granted, and Montgomery will be
allowed until February 6 to do so.

Once the filing fee is paid,

this Court will enter its customary initial scheduling order and

this action can go forward.1

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Milton I. Shadur
Senior United States District Judge
Date:

January 5, 2012

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This memorandum order is procedural only. No view is
expressed here as to the viability or nonviability of
Montgomery’s claims or as to the propriety or lack of propriety
of the extensive document that she has characterized as a
“qualified written request.”
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