| 25-876 |
Dan Giurca v. Montefiore Health System, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
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 |
Whether a district court can reopen a case and issue a partial prefiling judgment on some claims after a plaintiff's voluntary dismissal without preju… |
| 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 |
Whether a plaintiff's voluntary dismissal of its infringement claims weighs in favor of or against granting a defendant's fee motion under §505 of the… |
| 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 fees under 17 U.S.C. §505 because a plaintiff's Rule 41(a)(1) voluntary dismissal is not a co… |
| 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 a bankruptcy court's denial of a debtor's motion to voluntarily dismiss a Chapter 7 case is a final appealable order under 28 U.S.C. § 158 |
| 24-5642 |
Nawaz Ahmed v. Bill Cool, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-26 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction federal-civil-procedure finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus motion-to-dismiss voluntary-dismissal |
Whether the Court of Appeals lacks appellate jurisdiction to proceed in appeal case 21-3542 due to district court orders lacking finality and failure … |
| 24-5641 |
In Re Nawaz Ahmed |
|
2024-09-26 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction federal-rules-civil-procedure habeas-corpus lack-of-finality voluntary-dismissal writ-of-prohibition |
Whether a writ of prohibition is available to challenge an appellate court's jurisdiction when district court orders lack finality due to unadjudicate… |
| 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 |
Whether a second voluntary dismissal under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A) and (B) acts as an adjudication on the merits and forms a basi… |
| 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 |
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 by… |
| 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 |
Whether a defendant who successfully defends against a copyright infringement lawsuit and obtains a voluntary dismissal without prejudice can be consi… |
| 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 |
Whether a Rule 41 voluntary dismissal without prejudice is a 'final judgment, order, or proceeding' under Rule 60(b) |
| 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 |
Whether an exception to the final judgment rule is valid under U.R.A.P. 5 |
| 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 |
Whether plaintiffs can evade federal CAFA-jurisdiction through pleading-artifices |
| 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 |
Whether trial courts have jurisdiction or inherent authority to grant relief from a voluntary dismissal in which there have been allegations of fraud … |
| 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 |
Whether the Federal Circuit correctly interpreted Kessler to create a freestanding preclusion doctrine |
| 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 district court err in denying the motion to set aside a notice of voluntary dismissal? |
| 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 a plaintiff has an absolute right to voluntary dismissal under FRCP Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i) |
| 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 |
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 of C… |
| 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 |
Whether a voluntary dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1) precludes a defendant from being considered a 'prevailing party' for purp… |
| 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 |
Whether the PTAB's application of 35 U.S.C. § 315(b)'s time-bar provision in its decision to institute IPR is appealable under 35 U.S.C. § 314(d), and… |