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Parties Involved:
Steve Farmer
Counter Claimant
Grandpaw Dowd's Catfish, Inc.
Counter Defendant
Savage Poultry, Inc.
Counter Claimant

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS

FAYETTEVILLE DIVISION

GRANDPAW DOWD'S CATFISH, INC.,

an Arkansas corporation PLAINTIFF

v. Civil No. 04-5289

SAVAGE POULTRY, INC., a

Maryland corporation, and

STEVE FARMER, an individual DEFENDANTS

O R D E R

Now on this 10th day of October, 2006, comes on for

consideration a document entitled Motion To Reopen Case (document

#15), and the Court, being well and sufficiently advised, finds and

orders as follows:

1. This matter was dismissed without prejudice on September

29, 2005. Because it was dismissed, rather than administratively

terminated, it can only be “reopened” by being refiled.

2. The motion now under consideration is filed by Gregg E.

Dowd, president of plaintiff corporation, who does not appear to be

a licensed attorney. The Court makes this determination based on the

fact that no attorney license number is stated on the document, nor

is the filer a registered user of the Court’s CM/ECF system, which all

licensed attorneys are expected to use, but which pro se litigants are

not entitled to use. Thus the Court finds that the motion to be a

nullity. “[A] corporation may appear in the federal courts only

through licensed counsel.” Rowland v. California Men’s Colony, 506

U.S. 194, 202 (1993). 

3. For the foregoing reasons, the Motion To Reopen Case

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(document #15) is denied.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

 /s/ Jimm Larry Hendren 

JIMM LARRY HENDREN

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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