Willis v. MAYOR & ALDERMAN OF THE CITY OF SAVANNAH

ORDER

G.R. SMITH, United States Magistrate Judge.

Plaintiffs move to amend their complaint to reflect a defendant’s proper name. Doc. 54. Some background: This 42 U.S.C. § 1983, excessive force case arises from an attempted traffic stop in Savannah, Georgia, in which “robbery-detail” police stopped David Willis’s vehicle. Doc. 32 at 3-7 (Joint Status Report; its facts are accepted here as true for the purpose of this Order). According to the police, Willis tried to run an officer down as he approached Willis’s car, so the officer fatally shot him. Id. at 6-7. Plaintiffs (Willis’s estate,…