Chrisco v. United States

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• finding that nominal damages cannot be “read into the complaint” and that plaintiffs could not rely upon the request for “other reliefs as the Court deems just and proper”
• “Rule 21 [governing 6 misjoinder of parties] cannot be employed as a means to create a case or controversy through substitution where one no longer exits.”
• because Rule 15 only allows a “party” to amend “the party’s pleading,” when a case has become moot as to an original plaintiff, those plaintiffs are no longer parties to an action and cannot amend the complaint. “Thus, by its terms, Rule 15(a

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