Lord v. Northern Manhattan Rehab & Nursing Center
- Laura Swain
- 1:25-cv-00243
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Lord v. Northern Manhattan Rehab & Nursing Center, Judge Swain ordered payment of fees or an application to proceed without prepaying them within 30 days.
Don Lord must either pay $405 in fees or submit a signed application to proceed without prepaying fees within 30 days. The defendants are not yet required to respond because no summons has issued.
What happened
In Lord v. Northern Manhattan Rehab & Nursing Center, Don Lord filed a civil action without a lawyer but did not pay the required fees or submit an application to proceed without prepaying them.
The court ordered Lord, within 30 days, to pay $405 in fees or submit a signed application to proceed without prepayment. No summons will issue yet, and the case will be processed if Lord complies; otherwise, the action will be dismissed.
Judge Laura Taylor Swain also ruled that any appeal from this order would not be taken in good faith and denied permission to appeal without prepaying fees.
The detailed version
- Lord v. Northern Manhattan Rehab & Nursing Center · No. 1:25-cv-00243
- Laura Swain
- Jan. 14, 2025
Background
Don Lord filed this civil action without a lawyer. The opinion states that he submitted the complaint without paying the required fees and without an application to proceed without prepaying fees.
Order
The court stated that proceeding with a civil action requires either payment of $405—consisting of a $350 filing fee and a $55 administrative fee—or submission of a signed application to proceed without prepaying fees. Within 30 days of the order, Lord must do one of those two things. If he submits the application, it must identify docket number 25-CV-0243 (LTS). If the court grants the application, Lord may proceed without prepaying the fees.
No summons will issue at this time. If Lord complies, the Clerk’s Office will process the case under its procedures. If he does not comply within the allowed time, the action will be dismissed.
Appeal
The court certified under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(3) that an appeal from this order would not be taken in good faith. It therefore denied permission to appeal without prepaying fees. The order did not decide the underlying claims against Northern Manhattan Rehab Nursing Center or any other defendant.
Read the full 2-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.