James Wood, Cross v. Allen Worachek, Cross

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “[i]t [is] not the obligation of jailers to determine whether or not probable cause exist[s] for [an] arrest”
• stating that Rule 15(c) \does not permit relation back where ... there is a lack of knowledge of the proper party\.
• stating that Rule 15(c) “does not permit relation back where … there is a lack of knowledge of the proper party”
• \The untimely amendment would not 'relate back' to the date of his original complaint because Flournoy made no mistake; he simply lacked knowledge of the proper defendants.\
• “A plaintiff may usually amend his complaint under Rule 15(c) . . . to correct a misnomer of [the] plaintiff where the proper party plaintiff is in court; or to change the capacity in which the plaintiff sues; or to substitute or add as plaintiff the real party interest[.]”
• “A plaintiff may usually amend his complaint under Rule 15(c) . . . to correct a misnomer of [the] plaintiff where the proper party plaintiff is in court; or to change the capacity in which the plaintiff sues; or to substitute or add as plaintiff the real party interest[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).