voluntary-dismissal
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-876 | Dan Giurca v. Montefiore Health System, Inc., et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-01-22 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split discovery-misconduct fraud-on-court judicial-integrity rule-60 voluntary-dismissal | 1. The "Fraud on the Court" Circuit Split: Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's restrictive interpretation of "fraud … |
| 24-1129 | Joan Carol Lipin v. Arthur Dodson Wisehart, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-02 | Denied | Response Waived | district-court-discretion prefiling-judgment res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine rule-41-dismissal voluntary-dismissal | A voluntary dismissal without prejudice under Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i), (B) terminates the entire action, inclusive of all claims, without a court order, a… |
| 24-825 | WC Realty Group, Inc., dba Century 21 WC Realty v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | copyright-infringement fee-motion litigation-strategy meritorious-defense statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal | 1. Whether a defendant is barred from recovering attorney's fee under 17 U.S.C. §505 because a plaintiff's Rule 41(a)(1) voluntary dismissal is not a … |
| 24-688 | Property Matters USA, LLC v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | attorney-fees copyright-law federal-procedure rule-41 statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal | Whether a defendant is barred from recovering attorney's fee under 17 U.S.C. §505 because a plaintiff's Rule 41(a)(1) voluntary dismissal is not a cou… |
| 24-5759 | Andrew John Delaney v. Gregory Messer, Chapter 7 Trustee | Second Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Denied | IFP | appellate-jurisdiction bankruptcy-court chapter-7 circuit-split final-order voluntary-dismissal | Whether the Court should resolve the split between the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, In re Victoria Station, Inc. and In re: A… |
| 24-5642 | Nawaz Ahmed v. Bill Cool, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-26 | Denied | IFP | appellate-jurisdiction federal-civil-procedure finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus motion-to-dismiss voluntary-dismissal | Is Court of Appeals lack Appellate Jurisdiction to proceed in appeal case 21-3542 by CO A on some claim because district court Orders (Ecf. 156,194) l… |
| 24-5641 | In Re Nawaz Ahmed | 2024-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction federal-rules-civil-procedure habeas-corpus lack-of-finality voluntary-dismissal writ-of-prohibition | Is Writ of Prohibition available to prohibit the. Court of Appeals lacking Appellate Jurisdiction to exceed its jurisdiction to proceed in appeal case… | |
| 24-5502 | William L. Mitchell, Jr. v. Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | adjudication-on-merits appellate-procedure civil-litigation federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-review voluntary-dismissal | Under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A) and (B), the "Effect " of a second voluntary dismissal "acts as an adjudication on the merits. " Gi… |
| 24-5168 | Edward Nicholas Reeder v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability court-order final-order habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure motion-disposition motion-to-withdraw-plea plea-withdrawal trial-counsel voluntary-dismissal | 1. Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to object and request that the lower court to address the disposition of Reeder's motion to withdraw plea… |
| 24A91 | John Abdelsayed, et al. v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Presumed Complete | attorney-fees copyright-infringement eleventh-circuit prevailing-party rule-68 voluntary-dismissal | Question not identified. | |
| 23-971 | Gary Waetzig v. Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review civil-procedure courts-of-appeals final-judgment rule-41 rule-60(b) rule-60b voluntary-dismissal | Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) empowers district courts, on just terms and under circumstances specified in that Rule, to "relieve a party or i… |
| 23-448 | Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC | Utah | 2023-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-procedure choice-of-law civil-procedure final-judgment interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction mootness rule-37 voluntary-dismissal | 1. Whether an exception to the final judgment rule is valid under U.R.A.P. 5 as the June 9th, 2023 and June 13th, 2023 arose from an improperly di… |
| 23-434 | Erie Indemnity Company v. Erie Insurance Exchange, By Troy Stephenson, Christina Stephenson, and Steven Barnett, Trustees ad Litem | Third Circuit | 2023-10-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | CAFA cafa-jurisdiction civil-procedure class-action federal-jurisdiction federal-removal jurisdictional-rules procedural-gamesmanship removal standing voluntary-dismissal | 1. Whether plaintiffs can evade federal CAFA jurisdiction through pleading artifices, while pursuing a representative action for the purported benefit… |
| 23-267 | Marilyn Williams v. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure final-decision interlocutory-ruling rule-41 rule-41(a) voluntary-dismissal | Does an interlocutory ruling that dismisses some (but not all) of a plaintiff's claims with prejudice become an appealable "final decision" if the pla… |
| 22-172 | Swisher International, Inc. v. Trendsettah USA, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-24 | Denied | Amici (1) | appellate-jurisdiction article-iii article-three civil-procedure final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal mandamus microsoft-v-baker voluntary-dismissal | Does an appellate court have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and Article III when a plaintiff voluntarily dismisses its claims with prejudice in o… |
| 21-7930 | Daniel Coleman v. Minneapolis Public Schools | Eighth Circuit | 2022-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure fraud inherent-authority jurisdiction relief voluntary-dismissal | 1. This case-presents the very simple question of whether trial courts have Jurisdiction or under their inherent authority, to grant relief from a vol… |
| 21-622 | Susan Elaine Devine v. Absolute Activist Value Master Fund Limited, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure dismissal district-court-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction modification motion-modification protective-order rule-41 voluntary-dismissal | Whether the voluntary dismissal of a plaintiff's suit under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1) permanently strips the district court of jurisdic… |
| 20-1394 | PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC v. Patreon, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-04-06 | Denied | CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-interpretation kessler-doctrine patent-law preclusion-doctrine voluntary-dismissal | 1. Whether the Federal Circuit correctly interpreted Kessler to create a freestanding preclusion doctrine that may apply even when claim and issue pre… |
| 20-735 | Artem Koshkalda v. Seiko Epson Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-27 | Denied | civil-procedure dismissal district-court-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure frcp-rule-25 frcp-rule-41 rule-25 rule-41 standing substitution-of-parties voluntary-dismissal | Did The United States District Court Central District of California err in denying Plaintiffs Motion To Set Aside a Notice of Voluntary Dismissal File… | |
| 20-699 | Michael Sammons v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-20 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure frivolous frivolous-litigation mandamus mandamus-review pro-se-litigant sanctions standing voluntary-dismissal | Whether, as the Ninth Circuit has held, a plaintiff has an "absolute right" to voluntary dismissal under FRCP, Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i), if no answer or mo… |
| 19-5311 | Ivaylo Dodev v. Bank of New York Mellon | Arizona | 2019-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review arizona-court-of-appeals arizona-rules-of-civil-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure,eviction,dismissal,arizona-rules-o criminal-law due-process eviction eviction-proceedings federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act judicial-discretion rule-41 second-amendment united-states-v-davis voluntary-dismissal Whether Mr. Burke's § 924(c) conviction is invalid | 1. Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One abused its discretion by not ruling on the applicability of Rule 41(a)(1) of the Arizona Rules o… |
| 19-45 | Nexus Services, Inc., et al. v. Donald Lee Moran, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Deputy Sheriff of Augusta County, Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | christiansburg-garment civil-procedure court-order federal-statute fee-shifting legal-relationship prevailing-party rule-41 rule-41(a)(1) voluntary-dismissal | Can a party qualify as a "prevailing party" under a federal fee shifting statute when an adverse party voluntarily dismisses its claims under Rule 41(… | |
| 18A1274 | Nexus Services, Inc., et al. v. Donald Lee Moran, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-07 | Presumed Complete | attorney-fees civil-procedure fee-shifting prevailing-party statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal | Question not identified. | |
| 18-1027 | Superior Communications, Inc. v. Voltstar Technologies, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2019-02-06 | GVR | Response RequestedRelisted (4) | 35-usc-314 35-usc-314d 35-usc-315 35-usc-315b administrative-law appealability inter-partes-review inter-partes-review-ipr patent-infringement patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab statutory-interpretation time-bar voluntary-dismissal | 1. Whether, under § 314(d), a party may appeal the PTAB's application of § 315(b)'s time-bar provision made during its decision to institute IPR. 2. … |