as i said the case is taking under advisement our third case for this morning is cobol ski against the cook county sheriff's police and others clear the dismissal was fundamentally wrong it foreclosed my ability to have my day court i can't pursue a redress of grievances the sheriff's beliefs have escaped liability and scrutiny even for their of actions including the serious violations of my constitutional rights which left me permanently damaged with nerve to him to my breast imagine if you will armed officers coming to your house in the middle of the night waking you up without a search warrant ordering you out of your house slamming you down on the hood of your car dragging you down the driveway and then don't show up i know you were electioneering or doing something important but isn't there some time to at least notify the court you've got a conflict and therefore can't make the will both hearings that you simply missed your lawyer you obviously are deeply concerned about this lawsuit but it was overridden by whatever you s well and i think just to focus he didn't really initially you know say that you had to make a choice but he said you had to at least communicate with the court that you had this conflict had you done so i mean i don't know what judge jerkin would have done but i do know that the district judges in general adjust schedules all the time because lawyers have conflicts people have conflicts and they you know say oh you know february twenty third isn't going to work let's put it out to march seventh you know so without communication the judge had no signal from you and warned you that this was going to have consequences and it did you're absolutely right you know that's exactly what happened and i'm not disputing that but why didn't you call i mean you could have been attending to your own business and slipped out five familiar with the federal girls on the federal courts men it's a different apparently your honor in the state courts if you don't show up for a court hearing generally speaking and i don't want to just generally speaking they will dismiss your case but it's not with pr didn't learn anything about the way the rules work in federal court and now i'm entitled to be excused on account of my own incompetence that would be a terrible approach for any federal court take you're absolutely right your hon i've got no excuse for my ignorance of the federal rules absolutely not but i am a saw a practitioner am trying to do the right thing here i'm not a practitioner in the federal courts and this obviously changed my life when these men came in the mi want to see is me angry house without a warrant and to charge me and to jail me and to prosecute me for obstructing justice and when i see justice the courthouse doors are closed to me but then when i see to reinstate their lot to me your honor i understand i'm at fault and opposing counsel is going to tell you what a talented attorney and i should have known better you're on but the punishment has to fit the crime on one of the factors that the court should have looked at and there's no indication that it there was the social objectives that the litigation represents and i got this from casals versus here now the social objectives here are to prevent pleas for talented and or to least subjected to scrutiny by the courts and i'm drawn to a quote from the continental congress to the inhabitants of quebec without the ability to peacefully relief from oppression we are left with disturbing the public train quality perhaps nowadays we would not have riots or police shootings if the police brutality was rigged wrestled by the courts i'm sorry i missed court date iraq but i was electioneering this is ben a major event in my life it woke me up this brutality was not an inner city not that that's ok but it wasn't my house and the western suburbs i was eventually found not guilty but that doesn't change the fact that i was a victim here and i did not speak out because i'm not a koala skippy well we all know what happened here and i'm asking this court to allow me to speak out i'm sorrier i wasn't in court on those two dates doesn't count as going to suggest that i violated multiple orders and i missed some full hearings the fifty page report of proceedings is obviously before the court there's no prejudice here lester sanctions were available and should have been  there was no time taken out of the courts busy calendar and there's no prejudice to defendants other than having a case pending for another month but the social objectives your honor required that this case be reinstated i c this one is by dr martin luther king junior injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere thank you thank you  her complaint on july twenty seventh of two thousand and fifteen the court held its initial status hearing on october sixth of two thousand and fifteen at the time it was represented that to the court that the defendants intended on filing a motion to leave to file such an amended complaint that was almost five months later next the court set a status hearing on december seventeenth of two thousand and fifteen the plaintiff failed to appear the court's order following the status stated failure of the plaintiff to appear personally or you counsel at the next data series will result in the action being dismissed for want of prosecution the plaintiff was warned the court say anything about whether th will be with or without prejudice your honor from the december seventeenth order of the court did that specify whether or not it would be with or without prejudice then again on a motion to reinstate her case in her motion she explained that she was held before the cook county election board just like she explained you here today however there's nothing in the record to suggest that the plaintiff attempted to contact conduct that a lesser section need not be utilized which is what happened in this case the district court recognized the delay of failing to ever amended complaint missing to court status plaintive and talks a lot about the underlying social social object directives of this case however the merits of the case are not what is before your honor it's whether or not the district court abuse discretion and dismissing her complaint i would like to point to a case that i supported in my brief the mcginest case supports the finding that we're seeking here today in the maginnis case the plaintiffs graduated from law school he was not a licensed attorney but the court determined that because of his training he had better insight about the need to follow court directives the case here is even more compelling the pla is a licensed and practicing attorney now while she argued that she wasn't familiar with the federal rules she is from millionaire with deadlines and status hearings and she failed to follow those court directives in this case therefore your honour's i argue that the district court did not abuse its discretion when dismissing this case and i asked counsel suggests that i could have cured of my sanction conduct by essentially phoning a friend but in the circuit courts and cook county you can't phone the judge in same running late i didn't know that that was viable saturdays and sundays i believe that was part of dan sunday going through each and every individual signature i understand that if you had something very difficult to do when i'm asking in state court you said you can't call the court you have tried to tell the court or do you just not show up in state i find that very hard to believe that you just radio silence so it's just just not trolling up without telling the cord is independent of any rules extraordinarily rude to both the judge and opposing coach whose time is being wasted when they think there's going to be a hearing and one side just doesn't show so i join my colleagues question what do you do in hearings are we consider evidence for hearings and of course you need to file a motion if you look like they have all suppose you are on your way to state court there was a giant traffic accident on the eisenhower expressway which is an unfortunately not a hypothetical it happens  from regularity and there you are and you have a ten o'clock status if you will and you know you know that you'll be lucky to make it downtown by noon i can't believe you don't call the court and say you know call the clerk's office call the judge's chambers call somebody and say i'm not going to be there i'm stuck in this giant traffic jam and i give that example is something that's entirely out of your control you know t there is a sanction around there is a section all right and i understand it's very ok well thank you very much and thanks to both counsel will take the case