Opinion ID: 162749
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Heading: Amendment of the Pleadings

Text: 21 CTI asserts the district court was obligated to permit amendment of the complaint to offer new allegations of special damages. Indeed, citing Curley v. Perry, 246 F.3d 1278, 1281 (10th Cir.2001) (dismissal of pro se complaint proper only where it is obvious plaintiff cannot prevail on the facts and futile to give him opportunity to amend), 14 CTI urges the district court abused its discretion without finding it patently obvious plaintiff could not prevail on the facts alleged. In support of its motion to amend, CTI attached the affidavit of its CFO, Kevin Packard, describing his involvement in the unraveling of the NASDAQ listing. While reiterating the sequence of communications between NASDAQ and CTI representatives, Mr. Packard failed to specify any newly minted evidence of special damages that had not already been included in the original complaint against Bloomberg. Instead, Mr. Packard asserted CTI incurred $350,000 in legal fees in its prolonged effort to reinstate the NASDAQ listing — a fact CTI surely knew when it filed its complaint, and an element of special damages not recognized by Utah law. 15 22 CTI styles its motion for relief from and reconsideration of final judgment under Rules 59(e) and 60(b), presumably as a means of reopening the case to file a motion to amend under Rule 15(a). Nonetheless, having produced no showing of how it would properly amend its pleadings or how newly discovered evidence warranted relief from dismissal, CTI remains bound by the record it created. 23 The district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion to amend. We, therefore, AFFIRM the dismissal of the cause of action under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6).