Westridge v. Allstate Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• denying motion to amend FOIA complaint to extent plaintiff sought to add APA and race discrimination claims
• granting leave to add new claims and new parties that related “in a substantive way to the original complaint”
• denying leave to amend FOIA complaint against former federal agency to the extent plaintiff sought to include race discrimination claims and violations of the Administrative Procedure Act
• denying leave to amend because it “would do far more than allow plaintiff to fully litigate all the legal dimensions of their initial action” but rather would “permit plaintiff to transform their case into something entirely new”
• “[L]eave to amend should be denied” where an amendment would “radically alter the scope and nature of the case and bears no more than a tangential relationship to the original action.”
• “Where . . . the complaint, as amended, would radically alter the scope and nature of the case and bears no more than a tangential relationship to the original action, leave to amend should be denied.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).