The filing of a Technology and Construction List Statement that reformulates an existing pleaded claim with additional evidentiary particulars does not constitute an amendment of that claim and does not afford a basis for imposing monetary limits as a condition of leave to amend. Where a proceeding is transferred from the District Court to the Supreme Court, the transfer removes the District Court's monetary jurisdictional limit, and conditions limiting the quantum of existing claims should not be imposed through the amendment power absent a proper basis.
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