Rosa Maria Cabrera Thompson v. Seattle Public Schools

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SAC are the same as the claims brought in her FAC, except that Plaintiff appears to seek to add an additional Defendant (WSRMP) to Counts Three and Five. Dkt. No. 96-3 at 36–46. Further, Plaintiff seeks to add 11 new claims (Counts Seven through Seventeen). Id. at 47–64. Plaintiff does not specify which claims are brought against which Defendants. It appears, however, that Plaintiff intends to plead all 11 new claims against Defendant SPS, and some of them against Defendant WSRMP. As the Court has now granted Plaintiff additional time to join parties (see Dkt. No. 155; see also supra n.1.), in evaluating Plaintiff’s motion here, the Court will consider claims to have been pleaded against WSRMP where the language of the proposed SAC lends itself to such an interpretation. These appear to be Counts Three, Five, Seven, Ten, Eleven, and Sixteen. Defendant variously asserts Although the Court issued a case scheduling order (Dkt. No. 83) before Plaintiff filed the instant motion (Dkt. No. 96), Rule 15’s liberal amendment standard applies here. Ninth Circuit authority indicates that the “good cause” standard of Rule 16 applies when a Party seeks to