Paul Moore v. City of Paducah Mayor John Penrod Joe Viterisi, Harold Ford, Robert Coleman, and Joe Flynn, Commissioners Robert E. Green

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• holding that an amendment filed three years into case and after dispositive motions had been filed was only “relatively light prejudice”
• noting that “delay alone, regardless of its length is not enough to bar amendment”
• reversing denial of motion to amend where district court found that defendant would suffer “relatively light prejudice”
• noting only “slight prejudice” when facts underlying the amendment were “well known to the parties and [ ] were pleaded at the outset”
• stating that failure to provide justification complaint for a second time on April 30, 2001. This attempt for tardy filings is insufficient by itself for a court to deny an at amendment was filed nine months after the district court’s attempt at modification
• delay alone is not enough under Rule 15(a) when the Defendant will face only “relatively light prejudice”

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