CSD Touhy LLC v. Jewel Food Stores, Inc., et. al.

Filing 74

MEMORANDUM Order regarding LR 26.3 that prohibits the filing of discovery materials unless the judge assigned to the case requests them. (For further details see Memorandum Order) Signed by the Honorable Milton I. Shadur on 2/5/2015:Mailed notice(clw, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION

CSD TOUHY, LLC,

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Plaintiff,
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v.
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JEWEL FOOD STORES, INC.;
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LEOPARDO COMPANIES, INC.;
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BULLDOG EARTH MOVERS, INC.;
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and SCIORTINO GROUP, INC.,
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Defendants.
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SCIORTINO GROUP, INC.,
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Third-Party Plaintiff,
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v.
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RELIANCE LANE INVESTORS, LLC,
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Third-Party Defendant.
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Case No. 12 C 5109

MEMORANDUM ORDER
Counsel for defendant-third-party-plaintiff Sciortino Group, Inc. ("Sciortino") have just
delivered to this Court's chambers what they characterize as a "courtesy copy" of a certificate of
counsel's having served answers to discovery requests from Jewel Food Stores, Inc. Regrettably
that delivery is not a "courtesy" in the true sense, for it violates this District Court's sensible rule
LR 26.3 that prohibits the filing of discovery materials unless the judge assigned to the case
requests them (in the days before electronic filing those materials provided nothing but needless
clutter in the court file, and although the advent of electronic filing eliminates physical clutter

there is no more reason for the judge assigned to the case to be receiving papers or notifications
that have no substantive relevance at all).
Moreover, it is simply wasteful for the law firm's staff, clerical or otherwise, to have to
process such materials or to bring them to the attention of this Court (which itself spends the
time required to look at, and to consider to the extent called for by that initial look, every
document filed in every case on its calendar). This Court's secretary has called this matter to the
attention of Sciortino's staff, only to be met with the response that "We always do it this way,
and we do it for every judge." That is really a non-answer, and it is regrettable that this Court
has had to waste its time further in issuing this memorandum order to call for the cessation of the
meaningless practice described here.

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Milton I. Shadur
Senior United States District Judge
Date: February 5, 2015

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