Opinion ID: 541132
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Heading: Ulaleo's motion to substitute parties is denied.

Text: 10 Ulaleo died during the pendency of this appeal; his individual claims are thus moot. His counsel requests that a substitution of individual parties be allowed. As counsel recognizes, the suit was neither brought or pursued as a class action. We therefore deny the motion and allow the appeal to continue with the Pele Defense Fund as plaintiffs. See Vun Cannon v. Breed, 565 F.2d 1096, 1099 (9th Cir.1977) (in the absence of a properly certified class, the representative plaintiff whose claim has become moot is himself without a litigable grievance, and the ... persons on whose behalf he seeks to continue the litigation ... have not yet achieved jurisprudential existence). See also Kennerly v. United States, 721 F.2d 1252, 1260 (9th Cir.1983) (individual with mooted claim may continue to represent class only if class certified before mootness or mootness occurs after class certification). 11