· 1/10/1990
Morongo Band of Mission Indians, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant/appellant v. Frank Rose Clive \Sonny\ Miller, Defendants-Counter-Plaintiffs/appellees
Citations
- 893 F.2d 1074
- 1990 U.S. App. LEXIS 194
- 1990 WL 972
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- holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying leave to amend when the new claims would have greatly altered the nature of the litigation and required the opposing party to prepare “an entirely new course of defense”
- stating that a “delay of nearly two years” was “not alone enough to 2 ||support denial” of leave to amend under Rule 15(a)
- upholding denial of leave to amend on the basis of dilatoriness and prejudice where Morongo Indians intro- duced new legal theory well into the litigation
- stating that leave to amend is to be granted 10 with “extreme liberality”
- finding that the policy favoring amendments “is to be applied with extreme liberality”
- stating that leave to amend 15 is to be granted with “extreme liberality”
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Judges: Browning, Canby, Nelson
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