AALTO Center Owners Association, Inc. v. Hartford Casualty Insurance Company

Filing 37

MINUTE ORDER granting 22 Motion to Amend Answer to Assert Additional Defenses. Defendant may file its Amended Answer no later than March 11, 2015. By Magistrate Judge Kathleen M. Tafoya on 3/9/2015.(tscha, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO
Magistrate Judge Kathleen M. Tafoya
Civil Action No. 14–cv–01983–RM–KMT
AALTO CENTER OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado nonprofit corporation,
Plaintiff,
v.
HARTFORD CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, an Indiana company,
Defendant.
MINUTE ORDER
ORDER ENTERED BY MAGISTRATE JUDGE KATHLEEN M. TAFOYA

“Defendant Hartford Casualty Insurance Company’s Motion for Leave to Amend Its Answer to
Assert Additional Defenses” (Doc. No. 22, filed December 1, 2014) is GRANTED. Pursuant to
Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a), “The court should freely give leave (to amend the pleadings) when justice
so requires.” See also York v. Cherry Creek Sch. Dist. No. 5, 232 F.R.D. 648, 649 (D. Colo.
2005); Aspen Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, LLC v. Aspen Valley Hosp. Dist., 353 F.3d 832,
842 (10th Cir. 2003). Moreover, Plaintiff fails to show “undue delay, bad faith or dilatory
motive . . . , repeated failure to cure deficiencies by amendments previously allowed, undue
prejudice . . . , [or] futility of amendment.” Foman v. Davis, 371 U.S. 178, 182 (1962).
Defendant may file its Amended Answer no later than March 11, 2015.
Dated: March 9, 2015