Beckman v. United States Postal Service

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that, because “a failure to assert a claim until the last minute will inevitably prejudice the defendant,” several courts in this Circuit have ruled that “it is inappropriate to raise new claims for the first time in submissions in opposition to summary judgment” (collecting cases)
• “[Tjhis Court will not consider claims not pleaded in the Complaint.”
• “[T]his Court will not consider claims not pleaded in the Complaint.”
• ‘this Court will not consider claims not pleaded in the [c]omplaint’’
• “It is beyond cavil, however, that ‘[t]he failure to keep a grievant informed of the status of the grievance is not a breach of the duty of fair' representation.’ ” (quoting Lettis v. U.S. Postal Serv., 39 F. Supp. 2d 181, 197 (E.D.N.Y. 1998))
• “Leave to amend a complaint will generally be denied when the motion to amend is filed solely in an attempt to prevent the Court from granting a motion for summary judgment, particularly when the new claim could have been raised earlier.” (cleaned up) (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).