Billy Ray Littlejohn v. Christopher Artuz

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• “[B]Jefore a motion or petition can be regarded as successive, there must be some prior adjudication on the merits or a dismissal with prejudice.”
• “Given that motions to amend are not successive habeas petitions, the standard for granting or denying a motion to amend is thus governed by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(a).”
• leave to amend a habeas petition should be “freely given”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).