Grandberry v. Hernandez et al

Filing 6

MEMORANDUM Order Signed by the Honorable Milton I. Shadur on 12/17/2012:Mailed notice(srn, )

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

GORDON GRANDBERRY,
Plaintiff,
v.
OFFICER MARK HERNANDEZ, et al.,
Defendants.

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Case No. 12 C 9946

MEMORANDUM ORDER
Gordon Grandberry ("Grandberry") has submitted a proposed 42 U.S.C. § 1983
Complaint against a number of police officers, accompanying that filing with (1) a Motion To
Proceed In Forma Pauperis and To Appoint Counsel and (2) an Application To Sue or Defend as
a Poor Person. Both because all of those documents, though typewritten, are so faint as to
challenge their readability (a real understatement)1 and because Grandberry has failed to provide
the printout covering transactions in his trust fund account for the six-month period ending
December 5, 2012 (see 28 U.S.C. § 1915), this Court is unable to move forward with this action.
Under the circumstances this Court will allow Grandberry until January 7, 2013 to do the
job right, both by providing documents that can be read and by tendering the required trust fund
printout. If he does so, this Court anticipates acting promptly on the matter -- and to avoid any
prejudice to Grandberry because of the delay, this Court will treat the December 13 date of
receipt of the original documents in the Clerk's Office as the effective date of this action for
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It does not seem to have occurred to plaintiff Grandberry that in pursuit of his own
asserted constitutional rights he has managed to inflict cruel and unusual punishment on this
Court by the unreadability of his documents.

limitations purposes. If however Grandberry does not comply with this memorandum order by a
timely filing, this action will be dismissed without prejudice (even though such a "without
prejudice" dismissal might perhaps pose statute of limitations problems).

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Milton I. Shadur
Senior United States District Judge
Date: December 17, 2012

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