Fonte v. Memorial Hospital of Laramie County

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF WYOMING
CHRISTOPHER FONTE,
Plaintiff,
vs. 	Case No. 1:23-CV-00140-SWS
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF LARAMIE
COUNTY, d/b/a CHEYENNE REGIONAL
MEDICAL CENTER, JANE DOES AND
JOHN DOES,
Defendants.
ORDER ON MOTION TO OBTAIN ELECTRONIC CASE FILING RIGHTS
Before the Court is Plaintiff’s pro se Motion to Obtain Electronic Case Filing Rights. [ECF
No. 3]. Plaintiff is a pro se litigant with a mailing address in Colorado and “is disabled and
receiving medical treatment at various locations which he must travel fairly regularly [to for
treatment].” Id. at 2. Plaintiff requests access to the Court’s Case Management/Electronic Case
Filing [CM/ECF] system to file his own pdf documents.
Under the Local Rules, a party may register for the Court’s CM/ECF system to receive
notice 	and 	service 	of 	any 	documents 	filed 	within 	their 	case. 	See 	Local 	Rule 	5.1
(https://www.wyd.uscourts.gov/court-info/local-rules-and-orders/local-rules); Pro Se Guide for
the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming (https://www.wyd.uscourts.gov/filing-without-
attorney); and CM/ECF Procedures Manual for the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming
(https://www.wyd.uscourts.gov/sites/wyd/files/cmprocmanual_0.pdf). 	Yet, 	according 	to 	the
CM/ECF Procedures Manual only an “attorney who is a member of good standing of the bar of
this Court” will be given the authority to file their documents directly onto the CM/ECF docket.
FILED
U.S. Magistrate Judge
9:24 am, 9/18/23
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Pro se litigants that are not barred within the state of Wyoming may email documents to
WYDNewCase@wyd.uscourts.gov to be electronically filed on CM/ECF but will not be given
electronic filing rights within the Court’s CM/ECF system. A document that is sent to the
WYDNewCase@wyd.uscourts.gov email address must have an actual scanned signature and
cannot be a case initiating document. See Local Rule 5.1 (f).
As a courtesy to Plaintiff, this Court has attached the Pro Se Litigation Guide (Attachment
1) and the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming’s Pro Se Electronic Notification
Registration Form (Attachment 2). Plaintiff may register to receive notifications of any filings that
happen in this case but may not possess the same filing rights as a licensed attorney in good
standing with the bar of this Court.
Based on the reasoning above, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Motion to Obtain
Electronic Case Filing Rights is DENIED.
Dated this 18th day of September, 2023.
STEPHANIE A. HAMBRICK
United States Magistrate Judge
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