Duckett v. District of Columbia

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• reversing dismissal for lack of standing where the plaintiff had made an honest error and moved to add the proper party within a reasonable time
• reversing the trial court’s decision dismissing an action for lack of standing because it “fail[ed] to provide the plaintiff with an opportunity to substitute herself as personal representative [of her son’s estate] as the real party in interest”
• trial court erred in dismissing for lack of standing without allowing the plaintiff, who was the decedent’s mother, to substitute herself, as plaintiff in her capacity as her son’s personal representative under Rule 17

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).