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amended pleading

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amended pleading n. a changed written pleading in a lawsuit, including complaint or answer to a complaint. Pleadings are amended for various reasons, including correcting facts, adding causes of action (legal bases for a suit), adding affirmative defenses, or responding to a court's finding that a pleading is inadequate as a matter of law. Amendments cannot be made willy-nilly, but only prior to being served, upon stipulation by the parties or order of the court. (See: amend, amended complaint, demurrer)


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E[acute accent]The Court has separately granted leave for both sides to file amended pleadings in the case.
PK:OMOG), through its Chairman, Adam Barnett, announced today that it has approved and had filed an amended pleading to the initial suit filed on March 29th 2005, seeking Declaratory Judgment in The District Court Of Harris County, Texas, 215 Judicial District.
" Additionally Barnett stated, "Though normally in a case like this a first round of amended pleadings are not usually filed until after initial discovery and depositions have been taken, our counsel informs me that the investigation over the past month has uncovered so many additional causes of action against the Defendants that I have approved preparation of a first amendment to the pleadings which will be filed in the Harris County, Texas, Court shortly.
 
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