Adding defendants after deadlines
Madelyn Marina Quiroz v. Hernandez
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Madelyn Marina Quiroz and others asked whether adding a legally separate, differently named defendant to an amended lawsuit can count as correcting a mistaken identity, based on what that defendant knew during the time allowed for service.
- Who it affects
- The denial ends Quiroz and the other plaintiffs’ request for Supreme Court review, but does not resolve their dispute over the added defendant’s knowledge.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The Supreme Court refused to hear the case, so it did not decide that question.
The dispute is about when a change to a lawsuit can count as correcting an earlier mistake about who should have been sued.
Question presented
Whether Rule 15(c)(1)(C)(ii)'s mistake requirement may be denied because the prospective defendant is a legally distinct entity bearing a dissimilar name and was added rather than substituted—or whether, as Krupski holds, that inquiry turns on what the prospective defendant knew or should have known within the Rule 4(m) period about whether its omission resulted from a mistake concerning the proper party's identity?
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