Charlene Chappell Keigi v. the State of Texas

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• explaining that adding a new party creates “a new and independent cause of action which cannot be maintained when the statute has run, for the amendment is one of substance rather than one of form and brings into being one not presently in court.”
• explaining that such an amendment “establishes a new and independent cause of action which cannot be maintained when the statute [of limitations] has run, for the amendment is one of substance rather than one of form and brings into being one not presently in the court”
• “As a general rule, an amendment pursuant to [Fed. R. Civ. P. 15] relates back only to the matters relating to the original parties of the complaint, or to correct a misnomer or a misdescription of defendant, and not to add or substitute a new party defendant.”

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