# Doe v. McMillan

> Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · July 29, 1977 · 566 F.2d 713

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7838527

## Case

- **Full name:** John DOE, by his guardian Mary Doe v. John L. McMILLAN, Chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia of the United States House of Representatives
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
- **Decided:** July 29, 1977
- **Citations:** 566 F.2d 713; 185 U.S. App. D.C. 48
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** On rehearing
- **Judges:** Leventhal, MacKinnon, Tamm
- **Cited by:** 69 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding undue delay when “complaint had been before the district court, [the D.C. Circuit,] and the Supreme Court for over thirty-eight months,” the plaintiffs “gave no indication . . . of any potential change in their theory of the case,” and the record reflected “no sound re…
- affirming district court’s decision to deny the plaintiffs motion to amend the complaint because the motion was filed more than three years after the commencement of litigation
- affirming denial of motion to amend when 38 months had passed after a “complaint had been before the district court, this court and the Supreme Court”

## Opinion text

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
ORDER
On consideration of the petition for rehearing filed by appellants John Doe, et al., it is
*56 ORDERED by the Court that appellants’ aforesaid petition is denied.
Statement of LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge, concurring in the denial of the petition for rehearing.

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