Jones

Jones v. County of Los Angeles

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227 F. App'x 648
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitApril 12, 2007No. 05-55860California286 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM *

John Gordon Jones appeals the district court’s summary judgment in favor of the County of Los Angeles, the City of Los Angeles, Deputy District Attorney Karla Kerlin, and Los Angeles Police Detectives Timothy Marcia and Dean Gizzi in Jones’s *649 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm. Because the parties are familiar with the factual and procedural history of the case, we need not recount it here.

We review for abuse of discretion the district court’s decision not to allow Jones to amend his complaint to assert that the defendants failed to obtain or disclose an allegedly exculpatory videotape. Texaco, Inc. v. Ponsoldt, 939 F.2d 794, 798 (9th Cir.1991). Jones waited to raise this argument, which he could have alleged years earlier, until the defendants had moved for summary judgment and amending the pleadings would have delayed resolution of the case. The district court, therefore, did not abuse its discretion by denying leave to amend. See Roberts v. Arizona Bd. of Regents, 661 F.2d 796, 798 (9th Cir.1981) (district court does not abuse its discretion when it denies a request to add a new claim “raised at the eleventh…

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