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Timestamp: 2017-11-18 23:39:41
Document Index: 284621149

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1915', '§ 1983', '§ 1915', '§ 1915', '§ 5', '§ 1983']

Plaintiff is granted thirty days in which either to file an in forma pauperis application on the enclosed form with the supporting information required by 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(2) or pay the full $350 filing fee. Plaintiff must also submit an amended complaint (plus a judge's copy and service copies). The clerk is directed to send Plaintiff an i.f.p. application, an amended complaint form, and instructions along with a copy of this order. Failure of the Plaintiff to comply with this order within thirty days will result in summary dismissal of this case. Plaintiff is reminded that he must provide the Court with the original plus a judge's copy of every document filed.
Plaintiff, currently a state prisoner, has brought this pro se civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff claims that he was denied needed medical attention following an attack by a fellow detainee at the Cook County Jail, and that correctional officials balked at prosecuting Plaintiff's assailant.
To enable the Court to make the necessary assessment of the initial partial filing fee, 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 Plaintiff wishes to proceed with this case by making installment payments instead of paying the full filing (CONTINUED) fee in advance, he must file an in forma pauperis application on the form required by the rules of this Court, 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 September 24, 2010, through March 24, 2011].
Plaintiff must also submit an amended complaint (plus a judge's copy and a sufficient number of copies for service on each Defendant named in the amended pleading). To satisfy the notice pleading requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2), Plaintiff must only state his basic legal claim and provide "some indication . . . of time and place." Thompson v. Washington, 362 F.3d 969, 971 (7th Cir. 2004). The complaint on file does not provide any dates. Without any relevant dates, the Court cannot make a threshold of review as to timeliness, as required by 28 U.S.C. § 1915A. In Illinois, the statute of limitations for Section 1983 actions is two years. See, e.g., Dominguez v. Hendley, 545 F.3d 585, 588 (7th Cir. 2008); 735 ILCS § 5/13-202.
In addition, Plaintiff has not named a proper Defendant. The only named Defendant, the Cook County Department of Corrections, is not a suable entity. See, e.g., Castillo v. Cook County Department Mail Room, 990 F.2d 304 (7th Cir. 1993). Plaintiff must name as Defendants the health care providers who refused treatment and/or the correctional officials who allegedly denied Plaintiff access to medical care.
The amended complaint must drop Plaintiff's claim that an internal affairs officer attempted to discourage him from pressing charges. Plaintiff had no constitutional right to see his assailant punished. The Constitution "does not require the states to prosecute persons accused of wrongdoing." Strong v. David, 297 F.3d 646, 650 (7th Cir. 2002). "A private citizen lacks a judicially cognizable interest in the prosecution or non-prosecution of another." Linda R.S. v. Richard D., 410 U.S. 614, 619 (1973); see also Leeke v. Timmerman, 454 U.S. 83 (1981). The officer's reluctance (or failure) to charge the other detainee is not actionable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.