(PS) Bell v. Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DELTHENIA BELL, et al., Case No. 2:20-cv-02539-TLN-JDP (PS) Plaintiffs, v. ORDER AND FINDINGS AND

RECOMMENDATION

HOUSING AUTHORITY OF SACRAMENTO, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 17 In December 2021, plaintiff Delthenia Bell, who filed this case pro se, passed away. On April 22, 2022, I ordered defendants to file a formal notice of plaintiff’s death and to serve that notice on her representative or successor. ECF No. 45; see Fed. R. Civ. P. 25. I stayed this matter for 120 days to afford plaintiff’s representative or successor an opportunity to a file a motion for substitution. ECF No. 45 at 3. Defendants now move to dismiss this case, ECF No. 49, and I recommend that their motion be granted. Under Rule 25(a)(1), a party must formally suggest the death of the party upon the record and serve the nonparty representatives of the deceased party with the suggestion of death in the 26 1 As explained in my April 22, 2022 order, the operative complaint…