Motion for Leave to Amend a Pleading
A request for permission to change a pleading when amendment is no longer allowed as a matter of course.
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Motion for Extension of Time
A request for more time to do something the rules or a court order require.
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Motion to File a Supplemental Pleading
A request to add a pleading that sets out events that happened after the date of the pleading being supplemented.
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Joinder of Parties (Required and Permissive)
The rules for who must, and who may, join as parties in one lawsuit.
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Motion to Intervene
A request by a nonparty to join an existing lawsuit.
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Interpleader
A procedure that lets a party facing competing claims to the same money or property bring all the claimants into one case.
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Motion for Class Certification
A request to have a case proceed on behalf of a class of similarly situated people.
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Motion to Substitute a Party
A request to replace a party — for example after a party dies, becomes incompetent, or an interest is transferred.
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Notice of Removal
The filing a defendant uses to move a case from state court to federal court when the federal court would have had original jurisdiction.
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Motion to Remand to State Court
A motion asking a federal court to send a removed case back to the state court it came from.