Crounse
(PC) Villery v. Crounse
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 JARED M. VILLERY, Case No. 1:18-cv-01623-NONE-SKO (PC)
12 Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S
13 v. MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE A
FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT
14 D. CROUNSE, et al., (Doc. 41) 15 Defendants. 16 17 On August 10, 2020, Plaintiff filed a motion for leave to file a first amended complaint, 18 pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15 and Local Rule 220. (Doc. 41.) Plaintiff seeks to 19 add two defendants and one cause of action. (Id. at 1-2.) Defendants have not filed an opposition 20 or a statement of non-opposition to Plaintiff’s motion, and the time to do so has passed. See Local 21 Rule 230(l). 22 Leave to amend a pleading “is entrusted to the sound discretion of the trial court,” 23 Pisciotta v. Teledyne Indus., Inc., 91 F.3d 1326, 1331 (9th Cir. 1996), and “[t]he court should 24 freely give leave when justice so requires,” Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(2). In exercising its “discretion, 25 a court must be guided by the underlying purpose of Rule 15…