Local Rule Reminder

AAPS v. ABIM, No. 23-40423 (June 3, 2024), presented a question about pleading amendment, in which the Fifth Circuit said that the Galveston Division’s local rule about amendments was inconsistent with Fed. R. Civ. P.’s “liberal amendment scheme”:

Other local rules on this, and other, common features of ciivl litigation may draw challanges as a result of this opinion.