California State Teachers' Retirement v. Don L. Blankenship

No. 14-1339 – California State Teachers’ Retirement System et al v. FILED Blankenship et al May 25, 2018 released at 3:00 p.m. EDYTHE NASH GAISER, CLERK WORKMAN, C. J., joined by TABIT, Judge, dissenting: SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA There are few tenets of civil procedure as well-established as the rule of liberality in permitting amendments of a complaint. In an action as substantively and procedurally complex—as well as inevitably protracted—as the case at bar, the equity and necessity of such liberality is made plain. The majority’s rejection of petitioners’ entirely…