Opinion
CASE NO. 2:12-cv-14296
11-13-2012
DONALD R. WARD, Plaintiff, v. JOHN DOE, Defendant.
JUDGE PAUL D. BORMAN
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
ORDER OF SUMMARY DISMISSAL
The Court has before it Plaintiff Donald R. Ward's pro se civil rights complaint filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff filed his complaint on September 27, 2012, alleging that certain unnamed healthcare workers, employed by the Federal Correctional Facility in Milan, Michigan, failed to give him the proper blood pressure medicine. Pl.'s Compl. 3, ECF No. 1. Plaintiff was an inmate at that facility when he instituted this action. At the time he filed his complaint, Plaintiff neither paid the required filing fee nor did he submit a proper application to proceed without prepayment of the filing fee. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(2); McGore v. Wrigglesworth, 114 F.3d 601, 605 (6th Cir. 1997). On October 1, 2012, the Court issued a notice regarding the parties' responsibility to notify the Court of address changes. E.D. Mich. LR 11.2; See Notice, ECF No. 3. That notice provided that failure to do so could result in dismissal of the case. Id.
Following, on October 2, 2012, the Court issued a deficiency order, requiring Plaintiff to either submit the required filing fee or a properly completed application to proceed in forma pauperis by November 1, 2012. See Order to Correct Deficiency, ECF No. 4. In that order, the Court also stated that failure to do so within thirty days of its order would result in dismissal of the case for want of prosecution. Id. That order was returned to the Court, on October 10, 2012, as undeliverable because Plaintiff is no longer confined at the Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Michigan. Plaintiff has not informed the Court of his current mailing address, despite his obligation to do so. See E.D. Mich. LR 11.2.
Accordingly, the Court DISMISSES WITHOUT PREJUDICE Plaintiff's civil rights complaint [ECF No. 1].
IT IS SO ORDERED.
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PAUL D. BORMAN
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE