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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 15:1692 Fair Debt Collection Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Zohal Abdurahman,

Plaintiff,

v.

Alltran Financial, LP,

Defendant.

Case No.: 17-cv-1080-AJB-BLM

ORDER GRANTING JOINT 

MOTION TO AMEND ANSWER 

(Doc. No. 15)

The parties filed a joint motion for leave to amend defendant Alltran Financial LP’s 

answer to remove its bona fide error defense without prejudice. (Doc. No. 15 at 1.) For the 

reasons stated below, the Court GRANTS this motion.

Leave to amend under Rule 15(a)(2) “should [be] freely give[n] . . . when justice so 

requires.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(2). The Ninth Circuit “has noted on several occasions . . .

that the Supreme Court has instructed the lower federal courts to heed carefully the 

command of Rule 15(a), . . . by freely granting leave to amend when justice so requires.” 

DCD Programs, Ltd. v. Leighton, 833 F.2d 183, 186 (9th Cir. 1987) (noting “the underlying 

purpose of Rule 15—to facilitate decision on the merits rather than on the pleadings or 

technicalities.”). “This policy is ‘to be applied with extreme liberality.’” Eminence Capital, 

LLC v. Aspeon, Inc., 316 F.3d 1048, 1051 (9th Cir. 2003) (quoting Owens v. Kaiser Found. 

Health Plan, Inc., 244 F.3d 708, 712 (9th Cir. 2001)).

The parties do not supply any factual reasons in support of their petition for leave to 

amend. Thus, the Court cannot analyze whether justice would require amendment, whether 

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bad faith is afoul, or other considerations such as undue delay. However, because the 

motion is a joint one, and is for the limited purpose of removing one defense from the 

answer, the Court will grant leave to amend for that narrow purpose only. Alltran is 

ORDERED to submit, as an exhibit to its amended answer, a redline version of its 

amended answer with the bona fide error defense—and nothing else—removed. The 

amended answer is due by December 14, 2017. The Court instructs any future amendment 

motions to contain factual and legal arguments in favor of the requested amendment.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 8, 2017

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