Smith v. Tucker et al
| Tynisha Smith |
| Brittany Tucker, Renita Williams, Meghan Jones, Brandie Moore and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA |
| 1:2026cv07607 |
| June 29, 2026 |
| U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois |
| Franklin U Valderrama |
| P.I.: Other |
| 28 U.S.C. ยง 1346 Tort Claim |
| None |
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| Filing 14 MINUTE entry before the Honorable Franklin U. Valderrama: Plaintiff has filed a reply in Further Support of Her Motion to Vacate the Attorney General's Scope-of-Employment Certification, Opposition to Defendant United States' Reply, Motion for Limited Jurisdictional Discovery, Motion for Evidentiary Hearing and Response to Defendant's Motion to Dismiss #13 . Typically, the moving party gets the last word in support of their own motion; accordingly, to the extent that Plaintiff's filing #13 is a sur-response to Defendant's motion to dismiss as opposed to a reply in support of her cross-motion for miscellaneous relief #11 , the Court will not consider it. Mailed notice. (jcm) |
| Filing 13 REPLY in Further Support of Her Motion to Vacate the Attorney General's Scope-of-Employment Certification, Opposition to Defendant United States' Reply, Motion for Limited Jurisdictional Discovery, Motion for Evidentiary Hearing and Response to Defendant's Motion to Dismiss by Plaintiff Tynisha Smith (Received via pro se online portal on 08/13/2026.) (man, ) |
| Filing 12 REPLY by Defendants Meghan Jones, Brandie Moore, Brittany Tucker, United States of America, Renita Williams in support of motion to dismiss #6 and RESPONSE to plaintiff's Combined Response motions #11 (Strom, William) |
| Filing 11 COMBINED RESPONSE by Tynisha Smith to Defendants motion to dismiss #6 , Motion to Vacate the Attorney General's Westfall Act Certification, Motion to Remand, Motion for Limited Jurisdictional Discovery, Motion for an Evidentiary hearing, and Memorandum of Law in Support (Exhibits) (Received via pro se online portal on 07/29/2026) (axk, ) |
| Filing 10 MINUTE entry before the Honorable Franklin U. Valderrama: Before the Court is Defendants' motion to dismiss for failure to exhaust administrative remedies #6 . Plaintiff shall file a response on or before 7/30/2026. Defendants shall file a reply on or before 8/6/2026. Mailed notice. (jcm) |
| Filing 9 NOTICE of Correction regarding 4 (eak, ) |
| Filing 8 MINUTE entry before the Honorable Franklin U. Valderrama: On or before 9/21/2026, the parties shall file a joint initial status report. A template for the Joint Initial Status Report, setting forth the information required, may be found at http://www.ilnd.uscourts.gov/Judges.aspx by clicking on Judge Valderrama's name and then again on the link entitled 'Joint Initial Status Report. The removing party must serve this Minute Entry on all other parties. If the opposing party has not been served with notice pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1446(d) by that date, the removing party's counsel is instructed to file an individual status report indicating the status of notice of removal by the same deadline. The parties are further ordered to review all of Judge Valderrama's standing orders and the information available on his webpage. Any nongovernmental corporate party that qualifies under the Rules is reminded of the requirement to file a disclosure statement under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 7.1/N.D. Ill. Local Rule 3.2. Mailed notice. (jcm) |
| Filing 7 MINUTE entry before the Honorable Franklin U. Valderrama: The order directing Plaintiff Tynisha Smith to submit a filing fee or IFP petition is stricken 4 , as this case was removed by Defendants. Mailed notice. (jcm) |
| Filing 6 MOTION by Defendants Meghan Jones, Brandie Moore, Renita Williams, Brittany Tucker, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA to dismiss for failure to exhaust administrative remedies (Attachments: #1 Exhibit A)(Strom, William) |
| Filing 5 MINUTE entry before the Executive Committee: Case reassigned to the Honorable Franklin U. Valderrama for all further proceedings pursuant to provisions of 28 USC 294(b).Mailed notice (Attachments: #1 Request for Reassignment) (man, ) |
| Filing 4 ENTERED IN ERROR Modified on 7/10/2026 (eak, ). |
| CASE ASSIGNED to the Honorable Thomas M. Durkin. Designated as Magistrate Judge the Honorable M. David Weisman. FEE DUE, NO INFORMA PAUPERIS APPLICATION SUBMITTED. Case assignment: Random assignment. (Civil Category 1). (eak, ) |
| Filing 3 DESIGNATION of William McHenry Strom as U.S. Attorney for Defendants Meghan Jones, Brandie Moore, Brittany Tucker, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Renita Williams (Strom, William) |
| Filing 2 CIVIL Cover Sheet (Strom, William) |
| Filing 1 NOTICE of Removal from Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, case number (20261011151) filed by Meghan Jones, Brandie Moore, Brittany Tucker, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Renita Williams (Attachments: #1 Exhibit A-B)(Strom, William) |
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