PÉREZ v. HOSPITAL DAMAS, INC.

No. 13-1810.

769 F.3d 800 (2014)

Altamira Rodríguez PÉREZ, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. HOSPITAL DAMAS, INC., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

October 16, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Manuel San Juan , for appellants.

Roberto Ruiz Comas , with whom RC Legal & Litigation Services PSC was on brief, for appellees.

Freddie Pérez-González , with whom Freddie Pérez-González & Assoc., P.S.C. was on brief, for Fundación Damas, Inc., intervenor-appellee.

Before HOWARD, LIPEZ and BARRON, Circuit Judges.


BARRON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal asks us to reverse a denial of a motion to amend a complaint in a medical malpractice case. We cannot do so, however, because the District Court acted within its discretion when it decided the plaintiffs had waited too long before trying to add — just weeks ahead of the trial's scheduled start — a new defendant.

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The underlying complaint concerns the...

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