Can a third amended complaint be amended to avoid the statute of limitations bar?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Scholes v. Lambirth Trucking Co., 10 Cal.App.5th 590, 216 Cal.Rptr.3d 794 (Cal. App. 2017):
amended to cure the defect of failing to file the action within the applicable limitations period. (Hendy v. Losse (1991) 54 Cal.3d 723, 742, 1 Cal.Rptr.2d 543, 819 P.2d 1.) Scholes fails to demonstrate how his third amended complaint could be amended to avoid the statute of limitations bar.
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