Fales v. CIGPF I Corp. et al

Filing 6

MEMORANDUM Order Signed by the Honorable Milton I. Shadur on 4/23/2012:Mailed notice(srn, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
CYNTHIA FALES,
Plaintiff,
v.
CIGPF I CORP., et al.,
Defendants.

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No.

12 C 2878

MEMORANDUM ORDER
This Fair Debt Collection Practices Act has just been
assigned to this Court’s calendar.

Its initial review of the

Complaint reveals that plaintiff Cynthia Fales (“Fales”) is a
Maine citizen from whom debt collector CIGPF I Corp. and its
affiliated co-defendant debt collectors attempted to collect a
debt by writing to her at her home from their offices elsewhere
(Minnesota and Georgia).

In any event, this action has nothing

to do with Illinois except that Fales is represented by Chicago
counsel.
This Court must not be misunderstood as looking askance at
the efforts of Fales’ counsel, who are described in Complaint ¶3
as “the legal aid attorneys at the Chicago Legal Clinic’s Legal
Advocates for Seniors and People with Disabilities program
(‘LASPD’) located in Chicago, Illinois,” to pursue violators of
the Act.

But as those counsel well know, this Court takes a dim

view of haling an asserted violator of the Act into court here in
Illinois where nothing about the lawsuit itself has any Illinois

connection.

Indeed, the selfsame plaintiff’s counsel have very

recently moved, in an identical situation in another lawsuit
assigned at random to this Court’s calendar, to transfer it
elsewhere.

This Court will not issue its customary initial

scheduling order in the hope that like action will attend this
case.

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Milton I. Shadur
Senior United States District Judge
Date:

April 23, 2012

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