Coventry First, LLC v. McCarty

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• holding that a court may deny leave to amend when amendment would be futile
• concluding that a district court has the discretion to deny a motion for leave to file an amended complaint when such amendment would be futile, 1.e., the amended complaint would fail as a matter of law
• noting that a motion to dismiss “is not a responsive pleading” for purposes of Rule 15
• noting that “[a] proposed amendment may be denied for futility when the complaint as amended would still be properly dismissed” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• stating we generally review the denial of a motion to amend a complaint under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(a) for an abuse of discretion
• affirming denial of plaintiff's motion to amend complaint to add substantive due process claim because the right in question is “not a fundamental right”

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