Order Form (01/2005)

United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois

Name of Assigned Judge

or Magistrate Judge Amy J. St. Eve Sitting Judge if Otherthan Assigned Judge

CASE NUMBER 12 C 2996 DATE 5/22/2012

CASE

TITLE

Demarko Deion Williams (445930) v. Chicago Police Department, et al.

DOCKET ENTRY TEXT:

The plaintiff is granted until 6/21/12 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 to

send the plaintiff an i.f.p. application along with a copy of this order. Failure of the plaintiff to comply within

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.

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

STATEMENT

The plaintiff has submitted a pro se civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 but has failed either

to pay the statutory filing fee or to file a petition for leave to proceed in 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 payment directly from the plaintiff’s trust

fund account. Thereafter, correctional authorities having custody of the plaintiff 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 must

“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

appropriate official of each prison at which the prisoner is or was confined.” 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(2). Therefore,

if the plaintiff wishes to proceed with this case by making installment payments instead of paying the full filing

fee in advance, he must file an in forma pauperis application on the form required by the rules of this court,

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STATEMENT (continued)

together 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 23, 2011 through April 23, 2012]. 

The plaintiff must, by 6/21/12, either 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 will furnish the plaintiff

with an in forma pauperis application along with a copy of this order. Failure of the plaintiff to comply 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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