(a) Amendments. A party may amend the party's own pleadings once as a matter of course at any time before a response is served or, if the response is one to which no further pleading is permitted and the action has not been scheduled for trial, the party may so amend it at any time within 20 days after it is served.
On motion and reasonable notice, the court may, on just terms, permit a party to serve a supplemental pleading setting out any transaction, occurrence, or event that happened after the date of the pleading to be supplemented.
If you have not already filed an amended complaint, and you think you can fix the problems the Defendant identified in the Motion to Dismiss, you may be able to file an Amended Complaint instead of an Opposition.
The court may deem a motion to file an amendment to a pleading to be a motion to file an amended pleading and require the filing of the entire previous pleading with the approved amendments incorporated into it.
An amendment is a motion to change, to add words to, or to omit words from, an original motion. The change is usually to clarify or improve the wording of the original motion and must, of course, be germane to that motion.
You will need to go back to the court where your order was issued and file modification forms. There will probably be a new hearing on the issue. You may also want to consult with an attorney to see if filing for a modification is appropriate under the circumstances of your case.
A pleading is only considered amended insofar as it incorporates or responds to events occurring before the original pleading was filed. If an amended pleading incorporates or responds to events occurring after the original pleading is filed, the new pleading is considered to be supplemental, not amended.
Motions to amend, which call for changes in the text or terms of the proposition, require a second and must be reduced to writing if requested by the chair. There is no limit to the number of amendments that may be proposed, and new amendments…