Court Opinion

ID: 9813145
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 22:56:55.056117+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:28:01.253501
License: Public Domain

LUTTIG, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I am pleased to concur in all but Part IV of Judge Niemeyer’s opinion. As to the question of whether the district court abused its discretion in not considering Fed.R.Civ.P. 20(a) when it joined party-plaintiffs, I would hold that it did not, because consideration of that Rule was not required. In my view, a district court may allow an amendment to join parties under Rule 15 (within the time periods permitted thereunder) unconstrained by the limitations of Rule 20. See generally 6 Charles Alan Wright, Arthur R. Miller & Mary Kay Kane, Federal Practice and Procedure § 1479 (2d ed.1990).