Staggs

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 LINNIE STAGGS, et al., No. 2:11-cv-00414-MCE-KJN Plaintiffs, v. ORDER DOCTORS HOSPITAL OF MANTECA, INC., et al., 15 Defendants. 16 Plaintiffs Linnie Staggs, as Administrator of the Estate of Robert Staggs (“Decedent”), and Melissa Staggs (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) initiated the present action in this Court on February 14, 2011. Nominal Defendants Zachary Staggs and Sandra Bauman, next friend of Alexa Staggs (collectively, “Nominal Defendants”), were listed for the first time in the Third Amended Complaint (“TAC”), filed on November 20, 2012, and amended on January 24, 2013, and were served on November 21, 2012. See ECF Nos. 70, 71, 84. According to the TAC, Nominal Defendants, who are Decedent’s children, were named as Defendants in this action pursuant to California Code of Civil Procedure 382 because they were “unwilling to be joined as plaintiff[s] in this action.” ECF No. 84 ¶¶ 9–10. Plaintiffs eventually filed the operative Fourth…