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Third Circuit· 10/3/1989

Bechtel v. Robinson

Citations

  • 886 F.2d 644
  • 1989 WL 113146

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the suit was not a direct action because it involved an insured suing his own insurance carrier to enforce a policy
  • holding that the court should use “strong liberality” in considering whether to grant leave to amend
  • holding that to show prejudice the party opposing the amendment of a complaint \must show that it was unfairly disadvantaged or deprived of the opportunity to present facts or evidence which it would have offered had the ... amendments been timely\ (internal quotation omitted
  • holding that to show prejudice the party opposing the amendment of a complaint \must show that it was unfairly disadvantaged or deprived of the opportunity to present facts or evidence which it would have offered had the ... amendments been timely\ (internal quotation omitted
  • holding that to show prejudice the party opposing th amendment of a complaint \must show that it was unfairly disadvantaged or deprived opportunity to present facts or evidence which it would have offered had the . . . amendments been timely\ (internal quotation omitted) (emphasis supplied)
  • explaining that, under Delaware law, equitable “estoppel may arise when a party by his conduct . . . leads another, in reliance upon that conduct, to change position to his detriment”

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Judges: Becker, Higginbotham, Nygaard

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