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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI 
EASTERN DIVISION 
 
MICHAEL DUTCHER, ) 
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               Plaintiff, ) 
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          vs. )  Case No. 4:24-cv-01257-MTS 
 ) 
TREVOR FOLEY, et al., ) 
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               Defendants. ) 
 
ORDER 
 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED  that Plaintiff’s Motion for Request for Forms, 
Doc. [72], is DENIED.  The Court is under no duty to provide a plaintiff in a civil action 
with free copies of publicly available forms and documents.  See  United States v. 
Carpenter, 271 F. App’x 371, 372 (4th Cir. 2008) (per curiam) (affirming denial of 
“motion for free copies”); Reichert v. Barlow, 1:24-cv-2912-RTG, 2024 WL 7014650, at 
*6 (D. Colo. Dec. 18, 2024) (“[T]he Court is not required to provide litigants with copies 
of documents filed in a case.”); Brown v. Wetzel, 2:20-cv-0512-MPK, 2021 WL 3042611, 
at *1 (W.D. Pa. July 19, 2021) (similar); Thomas v. Brown, 3:20-cv-1258-SRC, 2020 WL 
3420941, at *1 (N.D. Tex. June 22, 2020) (similar).  What is more, Plaintiff here is 
statutorily ineligible to proceed in forma pauperis; therefore, he must litigate this action  
at his own expense.  See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g).     
Dated this 2nd day of June 2026.  
  
             
MATTHEW T. SCHELP 
      UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 
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