Paskauskiene v. Alcor Petrolab, LLP.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the Seventh Circuit has \upheld denials of motions for leave to amend filed months after the deadline where the plaintiffs did not demonstrate good cause\
• finding in the absence of an adequate explanation that delay resulted from “a tactical litigation decision”
• applying the heightened good cause standard where the parties said they did not anticipate amending their pleadings and made a litigation decision to pursue claims in another forum
• applying claim preclusion to bar lawsuit asserting claims for relief that, in previous suit, plain‐ tiff had included in motion to amend complaint which was denied as untimely
• affirming the denial of leave to amend four months after the deadline
• “[T]he question is not whether [the employer] was correct to believe that [the employee] performed poorly, but rather whether he honestly believed that she did.”

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