the actions”), aff’d, 126 F. App’x 785 (9th Cir. 2005). See also Mitchell v. Maynard, 80 F.3d 1433, 1441 (10th Cir. 1996) (affirming refusal to enter judgment against party not named in complaint but referred to in brief); Zocaras v. Castro, 465 F.3d 479, 483-85 (11th Cir. 2006) (affirming dismissal a case where the plaintiff prosecuted an action under alias without revealing his true name in the pleadings pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 10). A plaintiff, as a party who initiates a civil action by filing an initial complaint, must identify itself in the caption. 2 Moore et al., supra, § 10.02[2][a]-[c], Plaintiff AHUG drafted its complaint, and thus the court relies on the complaint’s caption to discern the plaintiff in the suit. See Williams v. Bradshaw, 459 F.3d 846, 849 (8th Cir. 2006) (<HOLDING>). The individual utilities do not individually
holding that plaintiffs were not entitled to a preliminary injunction holding that the caption is entitled to considerable weight when determining who the plaintiffs to a suit are since plaintiffs draft complaints holding that underlying complaints filed by several plaintiffs all contained express allegations of property damage and that because all complaints arose from the same set of circumstances the allegations in any single complaint can be inferred in the other complaints holding plaintiffs supervisor subject to suit holding that a domestic plaintiffs choice of forum is entitled to more deference than a foreign plaintiffs