Armando Villa v. City of Chicago, Jane Byrne and Carol Witherell-Niec

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• explaining that although amendment is discretionary, it should be denied when it would be futile
• applying an abuse of discretion standard when analyzing the district court's decision to deny a party's motion for leave to amend
• applying an abuse of discretion standard when analyzing the district court's decision to deny a party's motion for leave to amend
• applying an abuse of discretion standard when analyzing the district court's decision to deny a party's motion for leave to amend after the deadline to do so set in that case
• where no new facts or changes of law warranted the filing of an amended complaint, the district court’s decision to deny leave to amend upheld

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).