Williams v. Boeing Co.

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• holding that a compensation discrimination claim was a “new legal theory depending on different facts” and did not relate back to the promotion discrimination claims in the original complaint
• finding that the proposed amendment did not relate back to the original 2 would be used to prove the existing claims and the new claim
• holding that a new 24 claim did not relate back to an earlier claim where the plaintiff “had to include additional facts to 25 support the [new] claim,” and “different statistical evidence and witnesses would be used to 26 prove” the claims
• explaining that new legal theories depending on different facts do not relate back
• rejecting application of relation-back doctrine where the new claim constituted a 11 new legal theory based on different facts than those pled in original complaint
• distinguishing between standards of review for denial of a motion to amend and denial of relation back once leave to amend is granted

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