United States v. Baker-Lockwood Mfg. Co.

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• holding that the determination of whether a claim in the amended complaint arose out of the same transaction or occurrence contained in the original pleading requires application of the legal standard contained in Rule 15(c)(2
• holding that the determination of whether a claim in the amended complaint arose out of the same transaction or occurrence contained in the original pleading requires application of the legal standard contained in Rule 15(c)(2
• holding that the determination of whether a claim in the amended complaint arose out of the same transaction or occurrence con- tained in the original pleading requires application of the legal standard contained in Rule 15(c)(2
• new allegations related back to the original complaint when the plaintiff “alleged the very same general set of facts in the amended complaints as he did in the original ones”
• “Th[e] fundamental tenor of the Rules is one of liberality rather than technicality …”
• “[A] court will permit a party to add even a new legal theory in an amended pleading as long as it arises out of the same transaction or occurrence.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).