IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS

EASTERN DIVISION

JACQUES RIVERA, )

) No. 12 CV 004428

Plaintiff, )

)

v. ) The Honorable Joan B. Gottschall

)

REYNALDO GUEVARA, et al., )

)

Defendants. )

CITY DEFENDANTS’ OBJECTION TO PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO 

FILE EXCESS PAGES

Defendants Reynaldo Guevara, Steve Gawrys, Edward Mingey, and City of Chicago 

(“City Defendants”), by their respective undersigned attorneys, oppose Plaintiff’s motion for 

leave to file his excessive brief and state:

On August 27, 2018, Plaintiff complained that City Defendants’ motion for leave to file 

oversized briefs, which Plaintiff mistakenly asserted would consist of a combined 110 pages, 

was “abusive.” Dkt. 704. Instead, he argued that the Seventh Circuit has “stressed repeatedly 

that parties must make editorial decisions in order not to burden courts with verbose briefs 

outlining every imaginable argument.” Id., citing Fleming v. County of Kane, 855 F.2d 496, 497 

(7th Cir. 1988) (“Page limitations are important, not merely to regulate the Court’s workload, but 

also to encourage litigants to hone their arguments and to eliminate excessive verbiage.”). In 

fact, City Defendants’ four briefs were 16, 27, 16 and 34 pages each, a total of 93 pages.

Plaintiff’s motion to file a 133 page response brief takes hypocrisy to – literally – new 

lengths. It should be denied, and this Court should instruct Plaintiff to edit his response 

responsibly so that the Court and the City Defendants are not unreasonably burdened with having 

to grapple with it. 

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Date: November 14, 2018 Respectfully Submitted,

s/ Eileen E. Rosen /s/ Jeffrey N. Given

EILEN E. ROSEN JEFFREY N. GIVEN

One of the Attorneys for City of Chicago One of the Attorneys for Individual

Defendants

Eileen E. Rosen James G. Sotos

Stacy A. Benjamin Jeffrey N. Given

Catherine M. Barber Caroline P. Golden

Theresa B. Carney Jeffrey R. Kivetz

Rock Fusco & Connelly, LLC Joseph M. Polick

321 N. Clark, Suite 2200 David A. Brueggen

Chicago, IL 60654 The Sotos Law Firm, P.C.

Tel:(312)494-1000 550 E. Devon Avenue, Suite 150

erosen@rfclaw.com Itasca, IL 60143.

Tel: (630)735-3300

jgiven@jsotoslaw.com

/s/Thomas M. Leinenweber

THOMAS M. LEINENWEBER

One of the Attorneys for Reynaldo Guevara

Thomas E. Leinenweber

James V. Daffada

Leinenweber Baroni & Daffada, LLC

120 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2000

Chicago, IL 60602

Tel: (312)663-3003

thomas@ilesq.com

jim@ilesq.com

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify under penalty of perjury pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. § 1746 that on 

November 14, 2018, I electronically filed the foregoing City Defendants’ Objection to 

Plaintiff’s Motion for Leave to File Excess Pages with the Clerk of the Court using the 

CM/ECF system which will send notification of such filing to the following CM/ECF 

participants below.

Attorneys for Plaintiff Attorneys for City of Chicago

Arthur R. Loevy Eileen E. Rosen

Jonathan I. Loevy Stacy A. Benjamin

Elizabeth N. Mazur Catherine M. Barber

Russel Ainsworth Theresa B. Carney

Michael I. Kanovitz Rock Fusco & Connelly, LLC

Steven E. Art 321 N. Clark Street, Suite 2200

Anad Swaminathan Chicago, IL 60654

Rachel Brady (312)494-1000

311 N. Aberdeen (312)494-1001(fax)

Chicago, IL 60607 erosen@rfclaw.com

(312)243-5900 sbenjamin@rfclaw.com

(312) 243-5902 (Fax) cbarber@rfclaw.com

loevylaw@loevy.com tcarney@rfclaw.com

jon@loevy.com

Elizabethm@loevy.com

russell@loevy.com

mike@loevy.com

steve@loevy.com

annad@loevy.com

Brady@loevy.com

J. Samuel Tenebaum Attorneys for Reynaldo Guevara

Bluhm Legal Clinic Thomas M. Leinenweber

375 East Chicago Avenue James V. Daffada

Chicago, IL 60611 Leinenweber Baroni & Daffada, LLC

(312) 503-4808 120 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2000

s-tenenbaum@law.northwestern.edu Chicago, IL 60602

(312)663-3003

thomas@ilesq.com

jim@ilesq.com

Locke E. Bowman, III

Alexa Van Brunt

Roderick MacArthur Justice Center

Northwestern University School of Law

375 East Chicago Aveneu

Chicago, IL 60611

(312)503-0844

(312)503-1272 (fax)

l-bowman@law.northwestern.edu

a-vanbrunt@law.northwestern.edu

/s/ Jeffrey N. Given 

JEFFREY N. GIVEN, Attorney No. 6184989

One of the Attorneys for Individual Defendants

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