Order Form (01/2005) i
United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois Oo

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Name of Assigned Judi i if Other
matawignet oes | JOHN W.DARRAH | Site terrane | (HN |
CASE NUMBER 12 C 2644 DATE 4 9 ¥ Sf 27

CASE Laurence Stepney (#B-05228) vs. Tom Dart

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DOCKET TEXT:

The plaintiff is granted thirty days in which either to file an in forma pauperis application on the enclosed form
with the information required by 28 U.S.C.§ 1915(a)(2) or pay the full $350 filing fee. The clerk is directed tc
send the plaintiff an i.f-p. application along with a copy of this order. Failure of the plaintiff to comply withir
thirty days of the date of this order will result in summary dismissal of this case. The plaintiff is advised that he
must provide the court with the original plus a judge’s copy of every document filed.

@ [For further details see text below.] Docketing to mail notices

STATEMENT
The plaintiff, an Illinois state prisoner, has filed a pro se mandamus petition presumably pursuant to 2&
U.S.C. § 1361. The plaintiff seeks an order directing the Warden of the Western Illinois Correctional Center tc
re-calculate the plaintiffs sentence to reflect his original custody date. [Although the body of the petition seeks

relief from the Western Illinois Correctional Center’s warden, the Cook County Sheriff is named as the defendan:
in the caption.]

The plaintiff has failed either to pay the statutory filing fee or to file a petition for leave to proceed ir
| forma pauperis. The Prison Litigation Reform Act requires all inmates to pay the full filing fee, even those whose
cases are summarily dismissed. In all prisoner civil lawsuits, the court must assess an initial partial filing fee.
See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(1). The court will direct correctional officials to deduct the initial filing fee paymen
directly from the plaintiff's trust fund account. Thereafter, correctional authorities having custody of the plaintif:"
will be authorized and ordered to make monthly payments to the court of 20% of the preceding month’s income
credited to the trust fund account until such time as the full filing fee is paid.

To enable the court to make the necessary assessment of the initial partial filing fee, the plaintiff mus
“submit a certified copy of the trust fund account statement (or institutional equivalent) for the prisoner for the
6-month period immediately preceding the filing of the complaint or notice of appeal, obtained from the
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. STATEMENT (continued) ‘|
appropriate official of each prison at which the prisoner is or was confined.” 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(2). Therefo:e,

if the plaintiff wishes to proceed with this case by making installment payments instead of paying the full filir g
fee in advance, he must file an in forma pauperis application on the form required by the rules of this court, togetk er
with a certified copy or copies of his trust fund statements reflecting all activity in his accounts in the past six
months [that is, from October 10, 2011, through April 10, 2012].

The plaintiff must, within thirty days, either file an in forma pauperis application on the enclosed form w: th
the information required by 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(2) or pay the full $350 filing fee. The clerk will furnish t1e
plaintiff with an in forma pauperis application along with a copy of this order. Failure of the plaintiff to comy ly
within thirty days of the date of this order will result in summary dismissal of this case.

The plaintiff is reminded that he must provide the court with the original plus a judge’s copy of every
document filed.

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