Zamora et al v. Quezada, No. 2:2022cv00616 - Document 31 (D. Utah 2023)

Court Description: MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER granting 30 Motion to Amend/Correct. The court finds leave should be freely given to allow Plaintiffs to have their claims adjudicated. Accordingly, the court GRANTS Plaintiffs' motion. Signed by Magistrate Judge Dustin B. Pead on 10/30/2023. (mh)

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Zamora et al v. Quezada Doc. 31 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF UTAH, CENTRAL DIVISION DAVID ZAMORA and GUMECINDO ZAMORA, Plaintiffs, MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER Case No. 2:22-cv-00616-DBB-DBP v. District Judge David B. Barlow DOUGLAS QUEZADA, Chief Magistrate Judge Dustin B. Pead Defendant. Plaintiffs David Zamora and Gumecindo Zamora move the court for leave to file a first Amended Complaint. 1 Plaintiffs seek leave based on newly discovered information and recent developments in this case. To date there has been no response filed to Plaintiffs’ motion and the time to do so has passed. 2 Under Rule 15(a)(2) the “court should freely give leave [to amend] when justice so requires.” 3 “In the absence of any apparent or declared reason—such as undue delay, bad faith or dilatory motive on the part of the movant, repeated failure to cure deficiencies by amendments previously allowed, undue prejudice to the opposing party by virtue of allowance of the amendment, futility of amendment, etc.—the leave sought should, as the rules require, be ‘freely given.’” 4 1 ECF No. 30. 2 DUCivR 7-1(a)(4)(D). 3 Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(2). 4 Foman v. Davis, 371 U.S. 178, 182, 83 S. Ct. 227, 230 (1962). Dockets.Justia.com Here, Defendant has not filed a response 5 and the court finds leave should be freely given to allow Plaintiffs to have their claims adjudicated. Accordingly, the court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ motion. IT IS SO ORDERED. DATED this 30 October 2023. Dustin B. Pead United States Magistrate Judge 5 DUCivR 7-1(f) (“Except as provided in DUCivR 56-1(f), failure to respond timely to a motion may result in the court granting the motion without further notice.”). 2

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