Abbie

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Betty Abbie, et al., No. 2:20-cv-01995-KJM-DMC Plaintiffs, ORDER v. Shasta County, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 Plaintiffs in this wrongful death civil rights action move to file a third amended complaint 18 to add eight employees of Shasta County Sheriff's Department (Shasta employees) as defendants. 19 Plaintiffs also seek to add Wellpath, Inc., its affiliates, and its employees (Wellpath collective). Defendants oppose adding the Shasta employees but do not oppose adding the Wellpath collective parties. As explained below, the court denies in part and grants in part the motion: 22 plaintiffs may not amend to name the Shasta employees as defendants, but may name the Wellpath collective parties. 24 I. BACKGROUND This is a civil rights case stemming from Teddie Abbie’s death on September 11, 2019, while he was a pretrial inmate at the Shasta County Jail. Second Am. Compl.…