Opinion
No. 00 CV 5583.
February 11, 2002.
ORDER
Plaintiff has filed a pleading containing a number of motions. The rulings on those motions are as follows:
(1) Plaintiff here seems to be asking the court to summarily rule on a number of defendant's motions without requiring plaintiff to file more than his "superabbreviated" response. This motion is denied. The pending motions will be ruled on in due course, according to the standards of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures. Those rules do not permit the kind of summary rulings plaintiff appears to believe he is entitled to. Rather, the court is required to read all the papers filed and issue a reasoned decision on the motion. This principle applies to both meritorious motions and motions that have no merit.
(2) Plaintiff's second motion also seems to seek a summary ruling on defendant's motions. The ruling is the same as above.
(3) Plaintiff's request that the court recuse itself is denied. There is no basis for a recusal in this case. This is unfortunate, because plaintiff earnestly desires recusal and this court, if it saw any legitimate basis for accommodating plaintiff's wish, would gladly do so.