Elliot v. Mission Trust Services, LLC

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

Jeffrey Cole, UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

The Mission Trust Investors, now the counter-defendants in this case, have filed a motion for leave to amend the pleadings by filing instanter their answer and affirmative defenses to the Mission Trustees’ counterclaim. [Dkt. # 195]. While that filing is late — it was due no later than December 30, 2014 — given the backdrop of the case, sound discretion— and an exercise of discretion is what is involved, Pioneer Inv. Servs. Co. v. Brunswick Associates Ltd. P’ship, 507 U.S. 380, 383, 113 S.Ct. 1489, 123 L.Ed.2d 74…