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Nature of Suit Code: 362
Nature of Suit: Medical Malpractice
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Medical Malpractice

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 The document is actually a first amended complaint as no amended

complaint has previously been filed in this action.

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 As the Court has already advised counsel, see doc. #44, fn. 1, the total

capitalization of the parties’ names in the caption of any document filed with the

Court violates LRCiv 7.1(a)(3).

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Sarah June, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

TRC Four Corners Dialysis

Clinics, LLC, et al.

Defendants.

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CV-08-8007-PCT-PGR

 

 ORDER

 

The plaintiffs’ Second Amended Complaint (doc. #57)1

, filed August 22,

2008, improperly lists the plaintiffs as being “SARAH JUNE, surviving spouse and

heir of TSOSIE JUNE, SR., deceased; TINA JUNE, TSOSIE JUNE, JR.,

RONALD JUNE, ROBERT JUNE, JASON JUNE, NATHAN JUNE and GINA

JUNE, surviving children and heir of TSOSIE JUNE, SR., deceased.”2

 Since this

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is a wrongful death action, A.R.S. § 12-612(A) governs who may be a named

plaintiff. The Arizona courts have made it clear that the plain language of that

statute mandates that there be only a single plaintiff who acts for and on behalf of

all statutory beneficiaries. See e.g., Wilmot v. Wilmot, 58 P.3d 507,511 

(Ariz.2002). The Court will therefore strike the Second Amended Complaint and

will require that an amended complaint be filed that properly names a statutory

plaintiff. Therefore,

IT IS ORDERED that the Second Amended Complaint and Jury Demand

(doc. #57) is stricken.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that an amended complaint that properly

names a statutory plaintiff in compliance with A.R.S. § 12-612 shall be filed no

later than September 5, 2008.

DATED this 25th day of August, 2008.

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