Kelly v. Donahoe

Filing 6

MEMORANDUM Order: Plaintiff Kelly is ordered to supply the materials specified in this memorandum order on or before May 11, 2015. Plaintiff's In Forma Pauperis Application 4 and Motion for Attorney Representation 50 will be held in abeyance Signed by the Honorable Milton I. Shadur on 4/17/2015:Mailed notice(clw, )

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

ELSIE KELLY,
Plaintiff,
v.
PATRICK R. DONAHOE,
Postmaster General United States Postal
Service (Great Lakes Area) Agency,
Defendant.

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Case No. 15 C 2958

MEMORANDUM ORDER
Elsie Kelly ("Kelly") has filed a self-prepared Complaint of Employment Discrimination
against Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, utilizing the form made available by the Clerk's
Office for use by pro se litigants. Although her Complaint was timely filed in relation to the
February 5, 2015 denial of reconsideration by the United States Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission ("Commission") attached to Kelly's Complaint, the sprawling nature of her
hodgepodge narrative makes it impossible for this Court to address her claims without further
input from her.
At the outset it should be noted that Kelly has checked all but one box in Complaint ¶ 9,
thus asserting that she has been the victim of every listed category of claimed discrimination
except for religion: age, color, disability, national origin, race and sex. But nothing in her
hard-to-follow narrative adverts at all to any of those categories except possible disability -- and
even in that respect Kelly's June 24, 2011 EEO Complaint of Discrimination in the Postal
Service (also attached to the Complaint) has failed to identify her claimed disability, its duration

and any other relevant facts in any fashion that might enable this Court to conduct the
preliminary screening as to whether and in what fashion her action may proceed.
What Kelly must provide at a minimum to enable an effective evaluation are (1) the
written ruling in her August 13, 2010 mediation referred to in Complaint ¶ 12(h), (2) a copy of
the decision in Elsie Kelly v. U.S. Postal Service, EEOC Appeal No. 0120123331 (referred to in
the first sentence of the Commission's February 5 denial of reconsideration of that decision) and
(3) her request to the Commission for such reconsideration. Although some further information
may be called for after this Court receives and reviews those materials, those things should
facilitate this Court's ability to make a threshold evaluation.
Kelly is ordered to supply the materials specified in this memorandum order on or before
May 11, 2015. Meanwhile Kelly's In Forma Pauperis Application and Motion for Attorney
Representation, each of which has also been prepared on Clerk's-Office-supplied forms, will be
held in abeyance.

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Milton I. Shadur
Senior United States District Judge
Date: April 17, 2015

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