Amend Complaint To Add Cause Of Action

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According to Rule 15 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), a party may amend the party's pleading once as a matter of course at any time before a responsive pleading is served or, if the pleading is one to which no responsive pleading is permitted and the action has not been placed upon the trial calendar, the party may so amend it at any time within 20 days after it is served. Otherwise a party may amend the party's pleading only by leave of court or by written consent of the adverse party; and leave shall be freely given when justice so requires.


Most states have adopted these procedural rules for state action in one form or another.

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Your amended complaint must not contain legal arguments or case citations. Your must also state the federal basis for each claim (such as the U.S. Constitution, a specific federal statute, diversity jurisdiction or pendent jurisdiction), and describe what relief you are seeking for each claim.

Code of Civil Procedure §473(a)(1) provides that a court may, in furtherance of justice and on such terms as may be proper, allow a party to amend a pleading by adding or striking out the name of any party, or by correcting a mistake in the name of a party, or a mistake in any other respect. See also CCP §576.

When you amend the complaint to add the true name, the action against the defendant is deemed to have commenced when the original complaint was filed, not when you amended it. This means that the action against the defendant is treated for all purposes as if the true name appeared in the original complaint.

Unless the court orders otherwise, any required response to an amended pleading must be made within the time remaining to respond to the original pleading or within 14 days after service of the amended pleading, whichever is later.

An amended complaint is a written revision of the original complaint filed by a plaintiff or petitioner. Rule 15 of the federal rules of civil procedure allows the plaintiff to amend their complaint one time within 21 days of serving the original complaint or at any point before the defendant answers the complaint.

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