This is a personal jurisdiction case, which somewhat interests me on the merits, but what caught my eye was actually the caption. The principal parties are "Mary Cox v. Gritman Medical Center" alongside "'Others TBD'" as unnamed defendants.
I understand that different states do it differently. Here in California, of course, we typically call the unnamed defendants "John [or Jane] Doe" or simply "Does." This case is from Washington state. Is it really standard practice to simply call them "Others TBD?"
Nothing rides on it, of course. You could call them "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" for all it matters. (And I desperately hope that someone does, in fact, use that name at some point; it'd be classic.)
Still. TBD. Different for sure.
