IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS

EASTERN DIVISION

DARRON ROUSE #2010-1201145, )

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Plaintiff, )

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v. ) No. 12 C 2706

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COOK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF )

CORRECTIONS, et al., )

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Defendants. )

MEMORANDUM ORDER

When Darron Rouse (“Rouse”) first tendered a self-prepared

42 U.S.C. §1983 (“Section 1983”) Complaint against several

defendants, this Court issued a brief April 19, 2012 memorandum

order (“Order”) that directed Rouse either to pay the $350 filing

fee or to comply with the alternative requirement imposed on

persons in custody by 28 U.S.C. §1915 (“Section 1915”). In

response Rouse has unsurprisingly chosen the latter route.

Based on the institutional trust fund account printout that

Rouse has submitted with his In Forma Pauperis Application

(“Application”), the average monthly deposits to that account

during the relevant six-month time frame (see Section

1915(b)(1)(A)) amounted to $107.57, so that 20% of that amount

(id.) came to $21.50. Accordingly the Application is granted to

the extent that Rouse need not pay the full $350 filing fee in

advance, although he must pay the entire fee in current and

future installments.

Rouse is therefore assessed that initial partial payment of
$21.50, and the trust fund officer at Pinckneyville Correctional

Center (“Pinckneyville,” where Rouse is now incarcerated) is

ordered to collect that amount from Rouse’s trust fund account

and to pay it directly to the Clerk of Court (“Clerk”):

Office of the Clerk

United States District Court

219 South Dearborn Street

Chicago IL 60604

Attention: Fiscal Department

Both that initial payment and all future payments called for in

this memorandum order shall clearly identify Rouse’s name and the

12 C 2706 case number assigned to this action. To implement

these requirements, the Clerk shall send a copy of this

memorandum order to the Pinckneyville trust fund officer.

After such initial payment, the trust fund officer at

Pinckneyville (or at any other correctional facility where Rouse

may hereafter be confined) is authorized to collect monthly

payments from Rouse’s trust fund account in an amount equal to

20% of the preceding month's income credited to the account. 

Monthly payments collected from the trust fund account shall be

forwarded to the Clerk each time the amount in the account

exceeds $10 until the full $350 filing fee is paid.

Rouse has also tendered a Motion for Appointment of Counsel

(“Motion”), and this Court has determined that both he and

defendants (as well as this Court) will be best served by

granting the Motion. Accordingly this Court has obtained the

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name of the trial bar member next in line for such an

appointment, and the following attorney is hereby appointed to

represent Rouse pro bono publico:

John T. Schriver, Esq. 

Duane Morris LLC 

190 South LaSalle Street

Suite 3700 

Chicago IL 60603

With both the Application and the Motion thus having been

granted, this Court is contemporaneously issuing its customary

initial scheduling order. Rouse’s appointed counsel is expected

to make the necessary arrangements for service of process on all

defendants except for the Cook County Department of Corrections

and Sheriff Tom Dart, against neither of whom the Complaint

appears to state a plausible claim of a direct constitutional

violation.

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Milton I. Shadur

Senior United States District Judge

Date: May 11, 2012

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