Opinion
Case No. 15 C 7640
09-15-2015
STEVE T. GILES, Plaintiff, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS, Defendant.
MEMORANDUM ORDER
Pro se plaintiff Steve Giles ("Giles") is persistent if nothing else (and regrettably for his purposes, his aborted effort to obtain relief in this federal District Court is indeed nothing else). Because Giles has chosen to sue the State of Illinois, an effort foreclosed by the jurisdictional bar created by the Eleventh Amendment, this Court's brief September 2, 2015 memorandum order ("Order") dismissed Giles' one-page Complaint and this action on that ground. That dismissal in turn led to the issuance of an even shorter September 9 memorandum order that denied Giles' Motion for Attorney Representation as moot. Nothing daunted, Giles has now tendered a hand-printed request to have a new judge assigned to his case on the premise that "this is a civil rights case. And my case have the rights to at least be heard" (see the attached copy of his one-page filing).
All that this current document has done is to confirm what Publilius Syrus wrote more than two millennia ago (and was echoed by philosopher Blaise Pascal in his Pensées some 350 years ago):
No one should be judge in his own cause. And as this Court explained at the threshold of its September 2 Order:
It should be made plain at the outset that nothing said here expresses any views as to the substantive charges leveled by Giles in his one-page narrative.Hence Giles' current request is simply ill-considered and is accordingly denied.
/s/_________
Milton I. Shadur
Senior United States District Judge
Date: September 15, 2015 ATTACHMENT
I would like to have a new judge on this case because everytime I try to enter it they keep dismissing my cause of entering this is a civil rights case. And my case have the right to at least be heard.
9-10-15