Halpert v. Engine Air Service, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““If the amended complaint is substantially the same as the original, restricted however to the assertion of a claim for relief under Section 70 of the Act, the law of the case has been established with reference thereto, and the present task is restricted to an examination of the challenged pleading to discover if new issues are presented. “That process reveals that again five ‘causes of action’ are pleaded, in 181 numbered paragraphs, as against 172 in the original complaint. The added paragraphs do not assert new or different alleged causes of action, but merely contain evidentiary and perhaps argumentative allegations which do not expand or alter the nature of the plaintiff’s claim for relief as set forth in the original complaint. ****** “Motion denied, without prejudice to the renewal thereof in whole or in part at the trial, as the defendants may be advised.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 131 F. Supp. 398 - Halpert v. Engine Air Service, Inc.