Gruder
Gruder v. Crisp Marketing, LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
10 ROBERT GRUDER, an individual, Case No.: 3:20-cv-00796-BEN-AHG Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING UNOPPOSED
v. MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE AMENDED COMPLAINT
CRISP MARKETING, LLC,
Defendant. [ECF No. 17] 15 This matter comes before the Court on Plaintiff Robert Gruder’s (“Plaintiff”) Motion for Leave to File a First Amended Complaint. ECF No. 17. Defendant Crisp Marketing, LLC (“Crisp”) did not file a response. The Motion is now ripe for determination. I. LEGAL STANDARD Once a responsive pleading is filed, a plaintiff can amend a complaint “only with the opposing party’s written consent or the court’s leave.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(2). “The court should freely give leave when justice so requires.” Id.; see also Morongo Band of Mission Indians v. Rose, 893 F.2d 1074, 1079 (9th Cir.1990) (stating that leave to amend is to be granted with “extreme liberality”). “The power to grant leave to amend, 26 …