Shelly Feldman, Individually and D/B/A Shelly Feldman Associates v. Allegheny International, Inc.

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• refusing to grant an amendment where change of legal theories shortly before trial would require additional discovery, cause delay, and drive up costs
• discussing the benefits to both parties of letters of intent in complex commercial transactions
• denying leave to amend where party “gave no explanation why this theory could not have been alleged sooner . . . since the facts upon which it is predicated had been in the complaint all along”
• no contract exists where unambiguous statement requires execution: “ ‘shall be set forth in the definitive agreement executed by the parties’ ”
• no contract exists where unambiguous statement requires execution: \`shall be set forth in the definitive agreement executed by the parties'\
• “[w]hile Fed. R. Civ. P. 15 favors amendments when required by justice, it is not a license for carelessness or game[s]man-ship.”

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