Morris v. Riverview Health and Rehabilitation Center

Filing 24

ORDER granting 23 Motion to Substitute Party. Aundrea Dumas added. Shirley A. Morris terminated. Signed by Magistrate Judge G. R. Smith on 02/13/2012. (lmm)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA
SAVANNAH DIVISION
AUNDREA DUMAS, as administrator )
of the estate of Shirley Morris,
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Plaintiff,
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RIVERVIEW HEALTH AND
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REHABILITATION CENTER,
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a Georgia corporation,
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Defendant.
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Case No. CV411-049

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Shirley A. Morris died after filing this employment discrimination
case. Doe. 19 at 1-2; doe. 21 at 1. The Court stayed this case pending
defendant's Fed. R. Civ. P. 25 suggestion of death. Doe. 9. Her lawyer
then moved to substitute her heirs or her estate as plaintiff(s), doe. 19,
but, as the Court pointed out in its last Order, only an estate executor or
administrator has standing. Doe. 22, reported at 2012 WL 70675. So,
the Court stayed this case for thirty more days to enable proper
substitution. Doc. 22 at 3.
Moving to substitute herself as the plaintiff and thus to dissolve that

stay, Aundrea Dumas shows that she was just appointed administrator.
Doe. 23. The Court GRANTS her motion, dissolves the stay, and has
amended the caption accordingly. Doe. 23. The Clerk shall similarly
amend the docket, and all subsequent filings shall conform.
SO ORDERED, this 1/3-day of February, 2012.

UNITEWSTATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA