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Parties Involved:
Simmons Bank
Defendant
Donald Tannehill
Plaintiff

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS 

NORTHERN DIVISION 

DONALD TANNEHILL, on behalf of 

himself and all others similarly situated 

v. No. 3:19-cv-140-DPM 

SIMMONS BANK 

ORDER 

PLAINTIFF 

DEFENDANT 

The Court appreciates the parties' helpful joint status report, and 

notes the motion to amend. Tannehill's claims abated at his November 

2019 death. They can be revived by a timely motion to substitute. 

FED. R. C1v. P. 25(a); In re Baycol Products Litigation, 616 F.3d 778, 785 

(8th Cir. 2010); McDonald v. Pettus, 337 Ark. 265, 279, 988 S.W.2d 9, 16 

(1999). The Court's March deadline was meant to nudge things along; 

it is not dispositive. The deadline for substitution remains 

5 May 2020- ninety days after Tannehill' s death was suggested on the 

record. Atkins v. City of Chicago, 547 F.3d 869, 873 (7th Cir. 2008). The 

motion to amend, Doc. 36, is denied without prejudice as premature. 

There is nothing to amend at the moment because Tannehill's claims 

have abated. No class has been certified. The Final Scheduling Order, 

Doc. 29, is therefore suspended and the case is stayed. The Court awaits 

the planned motion to substitute, which can be joined to a motion to 

amend that proposes the additional plaintiff, too. 

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So Ordered. 

D.P. Marshall Jr. 

United States District Judge 

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