Cardenas v. Summers

Filing 6

Judge Richard G. Stearns: ORDER entered. MEMORANDUM AND ORDER FOR DISMISSAL: for the substantive reasons set forth in the Memorandum and Order (Docket No. 5) outlining the legal impediments to Cardenas's complaint, and for the failure of Cardenas to comply with the directives of this court, it is hereby Ordered that the above-captioned matter is DISMISSED in its entirety.(PSSA, 1)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
CIVIL ACTION NO. 11-12066-RGS
TOMMY CABRAL CARDENAS,
v.
LAWRENCE SUMMERS,
FORMER PRESIDENT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER FOR DISMISSAL
January 24, 2012
STEARNS, D.J.
On October 14, 2011, plaintiff Tommy Cabral Cardenas (“Cardenas”) filed a complaint
against the former President of Harvard University alleging retaliation and discrimination. It was
not in proper form and the Clerk’s Office did not accept the complaint for filing. Thereafter, on
November 22, 2011, Cardenas re-filed his complaint, naming as the defendant Lawrence Summers,
the former President of Harvard University.
On December 16, 2011, this court issued a Memorandum and Order (Docket No. 5) granting
Cardenas’s in forma pauperis motion and directing him to file an Amended Complaint within 35
days that comported with the pleading requirements of Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure. Cardenas also was required to demonstrate that his claims were not frivolous as time
barred.
To date, Cardenas failed to file an Amended Complaint as directed, and the time period for
doing so has expired.
Accordingly, for the substantive reasons set forth in the Memorandum and Order (Docket
No. 5) outlining the legal impediments to Cardenas’s complaint, and for the failure of Cardenas to

comply with the directives of this court, it is hereby Ordered that the above-captioned matter is
DISMISSED in its entirety.

SO ORDERED.
/s/ Richard G. Stearns
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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