J.F.
J.F. v. San Diego County Unified School
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA J.F., a minor, individually and on behalf of Case No.: 19-CV-2495-CAB-LL a proposed class,
ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR
Plaintiff, APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN AD v. LITEM
SAN DIEGO COUNTY UNIFIED
12 SCHOOL DISTRICT, [Doc. No. 3] 13 Defendant.
15 This matter is before the Court on a petition by Alexandra Feiles and Aron Feiles to 16 be appointed as guardian ad litem for minor plaintiff J.F. As one district court explained: 17 [A] guardian ad litem is not a general guardian. See, e.g., Bacon v. Mandell, No. 10–5506, 2012 WL 4105088, at *14 n. 21 (D.N.J. Sept. 14, 2012). A general guardian is “[a] guardian who has general care and control of the 19 ward’s person and estate.” Black’s Law Dictionary (10th ed. 2014). A guardian ad litem, on the other hand, is “[a] guardian, [usually] a lawyer, appointed by the court to appear in a lawsuit on behalf of an incompetent or 21 minor party.” Id. “Ad litem” means “[f]or the purposes of the suit;…