Hargrove v. Legacy Healthcare, Inc
Annotate this CaseIn 2016, plaintiff Stephanie Hargrove filed suit against defendants-respondents San Bernardino Convalescent Operations, Inc., dba Legacy Post-Acute Rehabilitation Center (Hargrove’s former employer; SBCO), Indio Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Inc. (another skilled nursing facility where Hargrove was never employed; INRC), and Legacy Healthcare, Inc. (managerial and support services corp.; Legacy) under the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA). Approximately four years later, in 2020, Hargrove died. Her attorneys requested leave to file an amended pleading to substitute movant-appellant Makiya Cornell in place of Hargrove to prosecute the PAGA claims; however, on October 6, 2020, the trial court denied the request, dismissed the action, and stated that Cornell “is free to file her own claim and her own causes of action.” On appeal, Cornell contends that she had standing to appeal the trial court’s order denying her request to substitute herself in place of Hargrove as an order effectively denying a motion to intervene. Alternatively, Cornell argued the Court of Appeal could treat her appeal as a petition for writ of mandate. Assuming the Court concluded Cornell had standing to appeal, she argued the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to permit her to amend Hargrove’s complaint to substitute Cornell as the representative plaintiff such that her PAGA claim related back to the original complaint. The Court of Appeal concluded Cornell did not have standing to appeal the judgment. The Court treated the order denying to motion to amend as an order denying an implicit motion to intervene, and concluded the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion.
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