Legal Opinion
KRUPSKI v. COSTA CROCIERE S. P. A
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 7, 2010No. 09-337PublishedCited by 890 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sotomayor
Rule 15(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure governs when an amended pleading “relates back” to the date of a timely filed original pleading and is thus itself timely even though it was filed outside an applicable statute of limitations. Where an amended pleading changes a party or a party’s name, the Rule requires, among other things, that “the party to be brought in by amendment . . . knew or should have known that the action would have been brought against it, but for a mistake concerning the proper party’s identity.” Rule 15(c)(1)(C). In this case, the Court of Appeals held that…
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