Bode & Grenier, LLP v. Carroll Knight

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• holding that two agreements, executed contemporaneously between the same parties, were subject to different states’ law where one contained a choice of law clause and the other was silent
• concluding that moving to amend four years after litigation began and one year after dispositive motions were decided “bears the hallmarks of gamesmanship, [thereby] defeating the orderly character of [arbitration,] . . . a legal process grounded in sound policy”
• explaining that a subcontract does “not [necessarily] incorporate the prime contract’s dispute clause” (cleaned up)
• finding undue delay where motion to amend was Sled “Sve years after the initial complaint and after discovery had closed”
• affirming denial of leave to amend after summary-judgment ruling where movant offered no justification for delay and new discovery would be required
• applying preclusion rules of the jurisdiction in which the judgment was rendered

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