Sandres v. LA Workforce Commission et al

Filing 108

RULING denying 104 Motion to Receive Copy of Transcript of Hearing Plaintiff Had to Do on 9/8/2009 and her 105 Request for Transcript. Signed by Magistrate Judge Stephen C. Riedlinger on 8/2/2012. (JDL)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA

NAOMI SANDRES
CIVIL ACTION
VERSUS
NUMBER 09-652-BAJ-SCR
LOUISIANA WORKFORCE COMMISSION,
ET AL
RULING ON MOTION FOR TRANSCRIPT
Before the court is the plaintiff’s Motion to Receive Copy of
Transcript of Hearing Plaintiff Had to Do on September 8, 2009.
Record document number 104.

Plaintiff also filed a separate

Request for Transcript seeking the essentially the same relief.
Record document number 105.
Plaintiff was granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis in
the district court.1
April 9, 2012.2

Judgment was entered dismissing this case on

Plaintiff’s appeal was dismissed for lack of

jurisdiction on July 19, 2012.3
Insofar as the plaintiff seeks a transcript of the September
8, 2009 hearing without cost to her, she has not shown that she is
entitled to a transcript under the in forma pauperis statute, 28
U.S.C. § 1915(c).

The transcript has not been requested by the

appellate court or the district court.
Insofar as the plaintiff is seeking at transcript at her

1

Record document number 4.

2

Record document number 98.

3

See record document number 103.

expense, her motion is repetitive.

Plaintiff was notified by

Magistrate Judge Noland in her September 22, 2011 Order of the cost
of the transcript, depending on whether the plaintiff wanted it in
seven days, 14 days or 40 days, and that the estimated costs must
be paid before transcription begins.4

The record does not contain

any indication that the plaintiff completed a transcript request
form (available upon request from the Clerk of Court) and paid any
estimated cost.
Accordingly,

the

plaintiff’s

Motion

to

Receive

Copy

of

Transcript of Hearing Plaintiff Had to Do on September 8, 2009 and
her Request for Transcript are both denied.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, August 2, 2012.

STEPHEN C. RIEDLINGER
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

4

See record document number 72, Separate Motion for Price of
Transcript of Hearing on September 8, 2009 as Requested in Writing
Three Times Already; record document number 73, Order providing
estimated cost.
2