SSI (US), Inc. v. EngagePoint, Inc.

Filing 7

MEMORANDUM Order: Plaintiff's motion for leave to file the proposed Amended Complaint 5 is denied. Nonetheless, because counsel has noticed up his motion for presentment at 9:15 a.m. February 8, he will be expected to appear in court at that time prepared to provide a response to the Order's real questions. Signed by the Honorable Milton I. Shadur on 2/4/2016:Mailed notice(clw, )

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

SSI (US), INC., d/b/a SPENCER STUART,
a Delaware Corporation,
Plaintiff,
v.
ENGAGEPOINT, INC.,
a Florida Corporation,
Defendant.

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Case No. 16 C 1833

MEMORANDUM ORDER
By way of what is really a total nonresponse to this Court's sua sponte memorandum
order ("Order") issued on February 2, counsel for plaintiff Spencer Stuart has quickly filed what
he labels a Supplemental Filing and Motion for Leave to File the Attached Amended Complaint
Against EngagePoint. Haste does indeed make waste, because that next-day filing reflects that
counsel has not read -- or if he has read, has not understood -- the Order.
As the Order stated at its very outset, Spencer Stuart's Complaint poses no problems as to
either the existence of diversity of citizenship or the requisite amount in controversy. Instead the
very different questions posed by the Order are set out clearly at its page 2 -- and not a word of
counsel's tendered filing addresses those problems at all.
Accordingly leave to file the proposed Amended Complaint is denied. Nonetheless,
because counsel has noticed up his motion for presentment at 9:15 a.m. February 8, he will be

expected to appear in court at that time prepared to provide a response to the Order's real
questions.

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Milton I. Shadur
Senior United States District Judge
Date: February 4, 2016

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