Opinion
No. 00 C 2438
June 20, 2000
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
This Court's April 28, 2000 memorandum opinion and order ("Opinion") (1) denied the Application To Proceed Without Prepayment of Fees ("Application") that had been filed by pro se litigant Tracey Ellis ("Ellis"), with such denial being predicated on the ground that the Application indicated that Ellis should be in a position to pay the $150 filing fee within a reasonable period (indeed, the Opinion gave her fully two months for that purpose), and (2) denied Ellis' Motion for Appointment of Counsel ("Motion") because it did not appear from the Complaint that Ellis would be unable to handle her claim on her own.
There were also some other problems with Ellis' disclosures (or more accurately, nondisclosures) reflected in the Motion, but the Opinion's discussion of those matters did not involve the issuance of any order by this Court.
On June 16 Ellis filed with the Clerk's Office a handwritten document captioned "Plaintiff's Factual Argument and Response to Judge Shadur's Wrongful Opinion." But that filing has addressed the substance of Ellis' employment discrimination claim, a matter as to which this Court has naturally not reached any conclusion (after all, no actual evidence — as contrasted with the allegations in the Complaint and in Ellis' current supplemental submission — has been furnished to this Court). If Ellis does proceed with the timely payment of the filing fee as stated in the Opinion, this Court will of course go forward with the case. If she does not, the Opinion specifies that "both the Complaint and this action will be dismissed (essentially for want of prosecution)."