Ladybug and Friends Preschool, LLC et al v. Napolitano et al

Filing 9

MEMORANDUM Order Signed by the Honorable Milton I. Shadur on 4/30/2014. Mailed notice by judge's staff. (srb,)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
LADYBUG AND FRIENDS PRESCHOOL,
LLC and IULIA SALAJAN,
Plaintiffs,
v.
JANET NAPOLITANO, Secretary of the
Department of Homeland Security, et al.,
Defendants.

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Case No. 14 C 1972

MEMORANDUM ORDER
On April 25 counsel for plaintiffs Ladybug and Friends Preschool, LLC and Iulia Salajan
filed a response to this Court's April 10 memorandum opinion and order ("Opinion") that had
raised two issues posed by a threshold review of the Complaint. 1 This Court has read the
response and does not find it fully persuasive, although it will not take any substantive action in
connection with the lawsuit sua sponte. Instead this Court will await whatever input the
governmental defendants may provide in response to the Complaint. In the meantime it is
contemporaneously issuing its customary order establishing an initial status hearing date.

Date: April 30, 2014
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Milton I. Shadur
Senior United States District Judge

This Court learned of that April 25 filing only via a check of the docket by its secretary,
for as of this writing no paper copy has been delivered to its chambers as mandated by LR 5.2(f)
(see Opinion at 1 n.1). It may be that the required paper copy is still en route from the Culver
City, California office of plaintiffs' counsel, but if that is not the case counsel's noncompliance
with the LR is really puzzling -- he has already been fined once for his earlier nondelivery of the
Judge's Copy of the Complaint. If plaintiffs' counsel has instead violated the LR again despite
his having been apprised of its existence by this Court's March 31 memorandum order and then
by the Opinion, that repeated noncompliance must again carry with it a fine payable to the Clerk
of Court -- this time $200.