Sorry for the followup question. I will probably just drop the dead defendant and continue to search for whether his estate has been setup or not. Now it looks like I can drop a specific defendant per this rule by Notice of Dropping Party.
http://phonl.com/fl_law/rules/frcp/frcp1250.htm 1.250 (b)
With this rule.
http://phonl.com/fl_law/rules/frcp/frcp1420.htm
Question.
1.) Just making sure I can use these rules to drop a specific defendant and not the whole case.
2.) If yes, if the other defendants have not been served yet on the original complaint, and I want to file this Notice, how do I serve the defendants that have not been served with the original complaint yet? Should I just wait till they are served with the original complaint before moving the Notice?
Thank you so much for the help. I have already had every strange thing happen during this process so far... adding one deceased defendant to the list.Your help and forum are a great resource, thanks again.

