Caillouet v. The Tug Jackie G

How courts have described this case

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• observing that “[a]bsent clear, controlling authority, the Court is not persuaded that a Magistrate Judge’s ruling granting a motion to amend a complaint is dispositive under the generally accepted criteria defining the term.”
• allowing joinder of additional party where “the claims against [it] are virtually identical to those against the other defendants”
• finding judicial economy favored adding new defendant where the “claims against [new defendant] are identical to those already in the case”
• finding lack of prejudice because additional discovery would not be extensive due to new claims having “virtually identical” facts to initial claims
• “[T]he burden on the current defendants of attending reopened depositions would be less because they have previously prepared for them.”
• good cause for the delay where defendant “reasonably waited until it could inquire further into the” counterclaims “before moving to add” a new defendant

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