G.R. SMITH, Magistrate Judge.
Defendant Savannah Airport Commission moves for a more definite statement of the second claim in plaintiff's Complaint. See doc. 7 at 1. Plaintiff has not opposed that motion, and she has filed two amended complaints. See docs. 14 & 15. The Commission moves to strike the second-filed amendment on the ground that only one amendment is allowed as a matter of course. See doc. 16 at 1 (citing Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(1)). As the Second Amended Complaint does not substantially alter the allegations of the First Amended Complaint, the Court will construe its filing as an implicit request for leave.
Although amendments beyond the first require consent or the Court's leave, the Rules instruct the Court to grant leave "freely." Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(2). "`Unless a substantial reason exists to deny leave to amend, the discretion of the District Court is not broad enough to permit denial.'" Florida Evergreen Foliage v. E.U. DuPont De Nemours & Co., 470 F.3d 1036, 1041 (11th Cir. 2006) (quoting Shipner v. E. Air Lines, Inc., 868 F.2d 401, 407 (11th Cir. 1989)). Here, the second-filed amendment is virtually identical to the first filed amendment. The only substantive differences (as opposed to merely typographical differences in the margins or font) between the two versions are the title (the first-filed is captioned "Plaintiff's First Amended Complaint," doc. 14 at 1, whereas the second-filed is captioned simply "Complaint," doc. 15 at 1); the specification of the retroactive promotion that plaintiff seeks (the first-filed amendment requests a retroactive promotion "to the position," doc. 14 at 7, whereas the second-filed amendment seeks a retroactive promotion "to the GS-15 level," doc. 15 at 7); the change of counsel's last name from "Brantley" to "Hamilton" and the insertion of her typed "signature." Compare doc. 14 at 8, with doc. 15 at 8. Those changes do not amount to a "substantial reason" to deny plaintiff leave to amend, and the Commission has identified none. See doc. 16 at 2-3. Accordingly, the Court
Plaintiff's amendment supplies the information that the Commission contends was missing from her original Complaint. The Commission sought a more definite statement of plaintiff's second claim because it failed to specify a statute or cause of action. Doc. 7 at 2. Although its language is still ambiguous, plaintiff's amended complaint clarifies her allegation that the discriminatory conduct violated "Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U[.]S[.]C[.] 2000e[,] et seq." Doc. 15 at 6. Since plaintiff has supplied the requested information, the Commission's request for a more definite statement is