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