Addamax Corp. v. Open Software Foundation, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
5 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Management Investors v. United Mine Workers · Exxon Corporation v. Maryland Casualty Company · Gronholz v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Smith, Kline & French Laboratories v. A. H. Robins Co. · Etablissements Neyrpic v. Elmer C. Gardner, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“the weight of authority is that Rule 41(a), Fed.R.Civ.P., applies only when an `action' is to be dismissed, an `action' being defined not as an individual `cause of action' but rather as the whole case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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