Baugher Ranch Organics v. Great Host International
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BAUGHER RANCH ORGANICS, a No. 2:21-cv-00646-MCE-DB California corporation, 12 Plaintiff, ORDER v.
GREAT HOST INTERNATIONAL,
INC., dba ANDALUCIA NUTS, a Texas corporation, 16 Defendant.
18 Presently before the Court is Plaintiff Baugher Ranch Organics’ (“Plaintiff”) Motion for Leave to File a First Amended Complaint which seeks to add a new cause of action for fraud. ECF No. 23; see also Pl.’s Mem. ISO Mot. Leave to File First Am. Compl., ECF No. 23-1 (“Pl.’s Mem.”). For the following reasons, Plaintiff’s Motion is DENIED.1 Generally, a motion to amend is subject to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(a),2 which provides that “[t]he court should freely give leave [to amend] when justice so requires.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(2). However, once a pretrial scheduling order is filed 26 1 Because oral argument would not have been of material assistance, the Court ordered this 27 matter submitted on the briefs. E.D. Local Rule 230(g).
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