Court Opinion

ID: 9814185
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 23:40:41.913598+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:37:42.100263
License: Public Domain

KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge,
concurring in the judgment.
I concur in the judgment. On the particular facts of this case it was not an abuse of discretion for the district judge to deny leave to file a third amended complaint based on a failure of plaintiff to show good cause under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16. From before the pleading deadline plaintiff knew the circumstances in which he made a contract with defendant, yet plaintiffs proposed third amended complaint sought to change the premise of the contract claim from the 1995 letter to an oral agreement, without any valid assertion of good cause. Given plaintiffs suggestion at oral argument that further discovery would be needed if the third amended complaint were to be permitted to be filed, prejudice to defendant is apparent. These circumstances do not warrant our finding an abuse of discretion by the district judge in his determination on remand.