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United States District Court, Northern District of Minois

Name of Asslaned Judge Milton L Shadur Sitting Judge if Other
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CASE NUMBER 02 C 8928 DATE 12/27/2002
CASE Financial Management Services vs. Coburn Supply Co., et al
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS

EASTERN DIVISION DOCKETED

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES, DEC 3 1 2002
INC.,

Plaintiff,

Judge Shadur
COBURN SUPPLY COMPANY, et al.,

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MEMORANDUM ORDER

What in the world has happened to lawyers' judgment? On
December 11, 2002 this Court issued its two-page Memorandum Order
(“Order”) calling the attention of counsel for Financial
Management Services, Inc. ("Financial Management”) to a flaw in
its bulky Complaint: a failure to identify properly the
citizenship of one of the defendants (a limited liability
company). With appropriate care, the Order concluded by granting
leave to Financial's counsel “to file an appropriate amendment to
the Complaint” (not a self-contained Amended Complaint) to cure
the one jurisdictional flaw. That limited form of order
reflected a decent respect for our nation's forests (the
Complaint and exhibits were nearly 3/4” thick) as well as plain
common sense,

Yet on December 20, 2002 Financial's counsel delivered to
this Court's chambers for filing a full-blown First Amended
Complaint (“FAC”) that is just as thick (of course) as the

original Complaint, even though all that had to be done was to



file an amended Complaint { 3 containing just four lines. And on
top of that, the only change made by counsel -- the rewritten
Complaint § 3 -- was wrong: It spoke of the residence and not
the state of citizenship (which is of course the relevant fact
for diversity purposes) of the limited liability company's sole
member .

It is too late to save the damage to our natural resources
that has been wreaked by generating multiple copies of such a
needlessly thick document. But this Court sees no point in
cluttering up the Court files (or its own chambers file) with
such unnecessary duplication. It is therefore not accepting the
proposed FAC for filing, expecting instead that a new one-page
filing setting out a proper (and properly slender) identification
of the required citizenship will be made promptly.?

Cte lle. D Sean

Milton I, Shadur
Senior United States District Judge

Dated: December 27, 2002

‘Financial's counsel should call this Court's chambers to
advise whether the counterparts of the unfiled FAC will be picked
up or whether this Court's staff should dispose of them in our
save-a-tree container.