Shoaf v. Burlington Industries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• striking excessive amendment to complaint when oral grant of motion to amend was implicitly limited to counsel’s representation concerning simple addition of party
• striking a newly added defendant where addition of new party went “far beyond the limited scope of amendment granted by [the] [j]udge”
• striking additions that went “far beyond the limited scope of amendment granted by [the] [j]udge,” where plaintiffs added four new counts and a new defendant after stating “that they had no intention of doing so”
• “[F]ailure to seek the required leave of court when adding a new allegation is grounds for striking that allegation.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• amended pleadings that exceed the scope of amendment allowed by the court may be stricken under Rule 12(f)
• amended pleadings that exceed the scope of amendment allowed by the court may be stricken under Rule 12(f)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).