Laborers' Pension and Laborers' Welfare Fund for the Health and Welfare Department of the Construction and General Laborers' District Council of Chicago Vicinity et al v. D. E. Thompson Excavating Co.
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MEMORANDUM Order Signed by the Honorable Milton I. Shadur on 4/8/2013: Mailed notice(tlp, )
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
LABORERS' PENSION FUND and
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LABORERS' WELFARE FUND OF THE )
HEALTH AND WELFARE
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DEPARTMENT OF THE
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CONSTRUCTION AND GENERAL
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LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL OF
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CHICAGO AND VICINITY, and JAMES S. )
JORGENSEN, Administrator of the Funds, )
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Plaintiffs,
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v.
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D. E. THOMPSON EXCAVATING CO.,
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Defendant.
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Case No. 13 C 2274
MEMORANDUM ORDER
Although this action was filed on March 26, 2013, plaintiffs' counsel has ignored the
explicit directive of this District Court's LR 5.2(f) that requires the delivery of a paper copy of the
complaint for the assigned judge's use within one business day after filing.1 To underscore the
importance of that requirement to the case management procedures followed by this Court, the
first paragraph in its website repeats the requirement, adding that a delivery to this Court's
chambers on the date of filing, if possible, would be appreciated (although such earlier delivery is
not essential).
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In an effort to monitor compliance with that requirement (which has regrettably not
always been adhered to by lawyers), both this Court's secretary and its courtroom deputy
maintain lists of all deliveries by counsel to this Court's chambers. Although that recordkeeping
is intended to be error-free, if counsel here were to establish that what is said in this
memorandum order is in error, the sanction called for by this memorandum order will of course
be rescinded.
Despite the literal one-business-day requirement of LR 5.2(f), this Court has customarily
allowed a few days' grace time before the issuance of this type of memorandum order. In this
instance that added time has elapsed without compliance by plaintiffs' counsel, and it is hereby
ordered:
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that the missing copy of the complaint be delivered to this Court's
chambers forthwith and
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that such delivery be accompanied by a check for $100 payable to
the "Clerk of the District Court" by reason of the LR 5.2(f)
violation, a requirement foreshadowed by the opening provision in
this Court's website.
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Milton I. Shadur
Senior United States District Judge
Date: April 8, 2013
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