Callahan v. Experian Information Solutions, Inc.

Filing 11

MEMORANDUM Order signed by the Honorable Milton I. Shadur on 2/9/2016. Mailed notice. (jh, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
EDWARD J. CALLAHAN,
Plaintiff,
v.
EXPERIAN INFORMATION
SOLUTIONS, INC.,
Defendant.

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Case No. 15 C 11641

MEMORANDUM ORDER
On February 1, 2016 this Court issued a minute entry that denied the In Forma Pauperis
Application ("Application") tendered by plaintiff Edward Callahan ("Callahan"), in part because
some of the answers in the Application had been presented in an unreadable and confusing
form -- but the minute entry went on to provide that if those answers were corrected the denial of
the Application would be subject to possible reconsideration. Now Callahan has tried again, this
time by submitting a revised Application coupled with a copy of a motion in a different case
(No. 15 C 11642). That motion seeks reconsideration by this Court's colleague Honorable
Rebecca Pallmeyer of her January 8, 2016 order that had granted him partial relief for a similar
difficulty by allowing him to pay a reduced filing fee of $150. It is obvious that Judge Pallmeyer
had the same difficulty in following Callahan's convoluted explanation that had led to this
Court's action in the case before it.
Callahan's attempted explanation of the interrelationship of the finances of him, his wife
and their daughter who lives with them remains a tangled web, but this Court is loath to preclude
him from pursuing what appears to be a plausible claim under the standard established by the
Twombly-Iqbal canon. It therefore defers ruling on the current Application and will allow this

action to proceed on the merits, but on condition that if Callahan hereafter prevails and recovers
damages in either or both of the action before Judge Pallmeyer (Case No. 15 C 11642) and this
action (Case No. 15 C 11641), he will be required to pay the full filing fee in this action.
Meanwhile this Court is contemporaneously issuing its customary initial scheduling order in this
case, and it will look to Callahan's counsel to pursue the lawsuit in the regular course.

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Milton I. Shadur
Senior United States District Judge
Date: February 9, 2016

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