Pfieffer

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ADAM JAY STONE, Case No. 1:21-cv-01461-ADA-SAB (PC)

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S

MOTION TO AMEND THE COMPLAINT

v. (ECF No. 41) C. PFEIFFER, et al., Defendants.

15 Plaintiff Adam Jay Stone is proceeding pro se in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion to supplement the complaint, filed September 8, 2022. Plaintiff seeks leave to file amend the complaint to specify the amount of damages sought. (ECF No. 41.) Rule 15(a)(2) provides that “[t]he court should freely give leave when justice so requires,” and the Ninth Circuit has directed courts to apply this policy with “extreme liberality.” DCD Programs, Ltd. v. Leighton, 833 F.2d 183, 186 (9th Cir. 1987). When determining whether to grant leave to amend under Rule 15(a)(2), a court should consider the following factors: (1) undue delay, (2) bad faith, (3) futility of amendment, and (4)…