Lopez et al v. Kelley et al

Filing 20

MEMORANDUM Order: On June 24, 2015 this Court issued its second sua sponte memorandum order ("Order") to bring the attention of defense counsel to fundamental deficiencies in the second of the responsive pleadings that they had submitted on behalf of their clients -- sort of a second "F" grade in Federal Pleading 101. Although the Order gave defense counsel until July 10 -- a bit over two weeks, which should have been more than enough -- "to file an appropriate amendmen t to the existing responsive pleading (not a fully self-contained Amended Answer) that conforms to the Rule 8(b)(1)(B) directive," that due date plus two additional working days have passed without the ordered response having been docketed (to s ay nothing of the nondelivery of the required courtesy copy to this Court's chambers). There is no apparent justification for that further delinquency, and defense counsel are ordered to pay a $200 fine to the Clerk of Court forthwith -- in addition, of course, to complying immediately with the Order. Signed by the Honorable Milton I. Shadur on 7/15/2015:Mailed notice(clw, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
ERNEST LOPEZ, SR., et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
MIKE KELLEY, in his official capacity as
SHERIFF of WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS,
et al.,
Defendants.

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Case No. 15 C 2405

MEMORANDUM ORDER
On June 24, 2015 this Court issued its second sua sponte memorandum order ("Order") to
bring the attention of defense counsel to fundamental deficiencies in the second of the responsive
pleadings that they had submitted on behalf of their clients -- sort of a second "F" grade in
Federal Pleading 101. Although the Order gave defense counsel until July 10 -- a bit over two
weeks, which should have been more than enough -- "to file an appropriate amendment to the
existing responsive pleading (not a fully self-contained Amended Answer) that conforms to the
Rule 8(b)(1)(B) directive," that due date plus two additional working days have passed without
the ordered response having been docketed (to say nothing of the nondelivery of the required
courtesy copy to this Court's chambers). There is no apparent justification for that further
delinquency, and defense counsel are ordered to pay a $200 fine to the Clerk of Court
forthwith -- in addition, of course, to complying immediately with the Order.

Date: July 15, 2015

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Milton I. Shadur
Senior United States District Judge