Opinion
No. 02 C 6271
September 12, 2002
MEMORANDUM ORDER
Betty Dumas ("Dumas") has filed a self-prepared Complaint in which she seeks to recover $2 million from Dovenmuehle Mortgage, Inc., its employee William Mynatt, Jr. and other unnamed Dovenmuehle employees for asserted violations of three federal statutes. This memorandum order expresses no view as to Dumas' substantive claims, focusing instead on her contemporaneously filed Application To Proceed Without Prepayment of Fees ("Application")
What Dumas sets out in the Application (and in her Complaint as well) is that she is a business woman. Though Application ¶ 5 says in part, "Business is slow. Don't expect much income this month," the same paragraph reflects that she owns real estate (apparently a three-story apartment building) having an estimated market value of $350,000 as well as household items valued at some $25,000 and business inventory with an estimated value of $5,000. Dumas really has to understand that does not even approach a portrayal that places her in the indigent category needed to excuse her payment of the $150 filing fee.
Accordingly the Application is denied. If Dumas pays the filing fee on or before September 23 so that this action may proceed, this Court will then enter an appropriate initial scheduling order. If not, both the Complaint and this action will be dismissed.