The following excerpt is from Sheppard v. Hood, Civil No. 15-cv-0049 BAS (RBB) (S.D. Cal. 2015):
Cir. 2014) ("'Futility of amendment can, by itself, justify the denial of . . . leave to amend.'") (quoting Bonin v. Calderon, 59 F.3d 815, 845 (9th Cir. 1995)).
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