ROMANELLI, RONALD v. SULIENE, DALIA

Filing 108

ORDER granting 107 Letter requesting trial transcript at government expense by Plaintiff Ronald Romanelli. Signed by Chief Judge Barbara B Crabb on 3/3/2009. (arw),(ps)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN

RONALD ROMANELLI, Plaintiff, v. DALIA SULIENE and CHRISTOPHER KUHL, Defendants. ORDER 07-cv-19-slc

This is a prisoner civil rights lawsuit in which plaintiff, Ronald Romanelli, alleged that defendants, a Columbia County Jail Sergeant and the jail physician, were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs related to Crohn's disease and his missing eyeglasses. A t the close of jury trial, the jury found that plaintiff's Crohn's disease and his missing eyeglasses were not serious medical conditions. I denied plaintiff's motion for a new trial on J u n e 16, 2008. His case is presently pending on appeal in the United States Court of Ap peals for the Seventh Circuit. Now, plaintiff has submitted a letter requesting that a copy of the transcript of the trial proceedings in this case be produced and sent to the court of appeals for its con sideration in connection with plaintiff's appeal. I will construe plaintiff's letter request to be a motion for preparation of the trial transcript at government expense pursuant to 28 U .S .C . §753(f), and grant that motion. As this section requires, I certify that the appeal is not frivolous.

ORDER IT IS ORDERED that plaintiff's motion for preparation of the trial transcript at

government expense, dkt. # 107, is GRANTED. Entered this 3rd day of March, 2009. BY THE COURT: /s/ STEPHEN L. CROCKER Magistrate Judge

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