Hawkins v. Pacific Coast Building Products, Inc.

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• holding that amended complaint related 2 back because the original complaint “merely misnamed” the defendant by failing to use its 3 “proper corporate name”
• noting that amendment is allowed when it “does not add a ‘new’ defendant, but simply 21 corrects a misnomer by which an ‘old’ defendant was sued”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).