Opinion
No. 02 C 4806
July 26, 2002
MEMORANDUM ORDER
On July 12, 2002 this Court ordered pro se plaintiff Maurice Jones ("Jones") to provide some necessary additional information in support of his request to go forward with his lawsuit without prepayment of the $150 filing fee (the financial information he had originally submitted appeared to indicate that he could obtain the necessary funds in short order out of his ongoing unemployment compensation payments). But the specified date (July 23) has come and gone without Jones having submitted either payment of the fee or the requested information or any explanation as to why he might need additional time for either of those alternatives.
This Court therefore denies Jones leave to proceed in forma pauperis, and it dismisses his Complaint and this action because of his noncompliance with the July 12 order. Because Jones (as a nonlawyer) is presumably unaware of the manner in which he may be relieved from the effect of this dismissal, he is further advised that under Fed.R.Civ. F. ("Rule") 59(e), as tempered by Rule 6(a), he may file a motion to alter or amend the judgment of dismissal within 14 days after the docketing of the judgment of dismissal (which will normally take place on July 29).
In that respect, Jones should understand that no extension of that 14-day period can be granted, because Rule 6(b) so provides.