(PC) Duncan v. California Healthcare Receivership Corp.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DIONTAE JOHAN DUNCAN, Case No. 1:20-cv-01288-AWI-SKO (PC)

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF LEAVE

TO FILE SECOND AMENDED

v. COMPLAINT

CALIFORNIA HEALTHCARE (Doc. 31) RECEIVERSHIP CORP., et al., 30-DAY DEADLINE Defendants. 16 17 On June 28, 2021, Plaintiff filed a “Motion Requesting Leave to Ask to Except [sic] this ‘Supplemental Complaint’ of New Arising Events, Adding New Defendants.” (Doc. 31.) The undersigned will construe Plaintiff’s request as a motion to amend his complaint, and hereby addresses Plaintiff’s motion. I. DISCUSSION 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 to…