Anderson v. Reep

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA ASHEVILLE DIVISION CIVIL CASE NO. 1:23-cv-00362-RJC ALBERT ANDERSON, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) vs. ) ORDER ) ) FNU REEP, et al., ) ) Defendants. ) ____________________________________) THIS MATTER is before the Court on the Plaintiff’s recent requests for “courtesy copy of case” [Docs. 23, 25], which the Court construes as a motion for copies of all filings in this proceeding.

Pro se Plaintiff Albert Anderson (“Plaintiff”) is a prisoner of the State of North Carolina currently incarcerated at Marion Correctional Institution in Marion, North Carolina. He filed this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on December 27, 2023, against 32 Defendants. [Doc. 1].

Plaintiff’s Complaint failed initial review and the Court allowed Plaintiff to amend his Complaint to properly state a claim for relief. [Doc. 12]. Now before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion requesting that the Court send him a “courtesy copy of full case.”1 [Doc. 23; see Doc. 25].

The Court will deny Plaintiff’s motion for copies. Plaintiff failed to include payment for the copies he requests. A litigant is ordinarily required to pay his own litigation expenses, even if he is indigent. See United States v. MacCollom, 426 U.S. 317, 321 (1976) (“The established rule Plaintiff also makes vague and nonsensical reference to “Punctuation Patterns tieing [sic] into a sexual cross-referenced nature” [Doc. 23 at 1] and “illegal acts of Punctuation Patterns being sexual worded” [Doc.

25]in his motion. is that the expenditure of public funds is proper only when authorized by Congress....”). The Court is not a copying service. If Plaintiff needs copies of documents filed in the docket in this matter, he may pay for the copies he seeks at the standard rate of $.50 per page. See https://www.newd.uscourts.gov/court-fees. The Court will, however, instruct the Clerk to provide the Plaintiff with a copy of the current docket sheet as a courtesy.

ORDER IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED that Plaintiff’s motion [Docs. 23, 25] is DENIED in accordance with the terms of this Order.

The Clerk is respectfully instructed to send Plaintiff a copy of the docket sheet in this matter. □□ ISSO ORDERED.

Signed:March 25, 2024 Otef$ 4 Cr Of Robert J. Conrad, Jr. ‘ey United States District Judge “ee