Lal

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Jessup Lal, No. 2:22-cv-01540-KJM-DMC Plaintiff, ORDER v. Enloe Medical Center, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 Following the death of plaintiff Jessup Lal, plaintiff's surviving spouse, Sareela Lal, 18 requests substitution in her capacity as the legal representative of the decedent’s estate. For the 19 reasons below, the court grants Ms. Lal’s motion to substitute. 20 I. BACKGROUND Jessup Lal brought this employment action against defendants Enloe Medical Center and Angela Sidney in Butte County Superior Court. Compl., Not. Removal, ECF No. 1-1. Defendants removed the case to this court. Not. Removal, ECF No. 1. Shortly after the assigned magistrate judge scheduled the case, see Sched. Order, ECF No. 12, defendants notified the court 25 that Mr. Lal had died, Notice of Death, ECF No. 18. Accordingly, the assigned magistrate judge modified the scheduling…