Cohen v. Longshore

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a district court has discretion to grant or deny leave
• finding our Court has aligned itself with the First, Fifth, and Eighth Circuits on this question
• finding our Court has aligned itself with the First, Fifth, and Eighth Circuits on this question
• addressing access-to-courts claim based on prison mail clerk’s refusal to send prisoner’s legal mail, which allegedly prevented prisoner from filing objections to magistrate judge’s recommendations
• court of appeals generally reviews “for abuse of discretion a district court’s denial of leave to amend a complaint”
• amendment should typically be allowed unless it is “patently obvious” that the plaintiff could not prevail

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).