Wallace
Wallace v. Lemoore PD
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
JAMES EDWARD WALLACE, Case No. 1:21-cv-01275-KES-EPG
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR
v. LEAVE TO FILE THIRD AMENDED
COMPLAINT
COSPER, et al., (ECF No. 70) Defendants. 15 Plaintiff James Edward Wallace proceeds in forma pauperis and with counsel in this civil rights action. This matter is before the Court on Plaintiff’s motion for leave to file a third amended complaint, filed on December 13, 2024. (ECF No. 70). As stated in the motion, [t]he proposed amendment seeks to add 2 new defendants: the City of Lemoore and Chief Darrell Smith (but only to the relevant proposed new causes of 20 action), and to allege 5 new causes of action (against all defendants as applicable) based on the Plaintiff’s recent acquittal from criminal charges related to this lawsuit's underlying facts. 22 (Id. at 2). Elsewhere, Plaintiff lists the following causes of action to be added as follows: “First 23 Amendment Retaliation and Fourth Amendment Malicious…