Sally D. Dear, Mother, Guardian and Next Friend of R. Cannon Dear and Jeffrey M. Dear v. Bertram E. Rathje

Sally D. Dear, for herself and as next friend of her two children, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on August 14, 1972. By her complaint she sought relief against four named individuals, one of them a state court judge, for alleged violations of her civil rights, committed under color of state law. Because hers was a pro se complaint, the Clerk, acting pursuant to Rule 10 B 2(a) 1 of the General Rules of the district court, referred the complaint to the court’s Executive Committee. He also withheld the issuance of summonses against…