Legal Opinion
Clarence A. Heckethorn, Trustee of the Clarence A. Heckethorn Living Trust, and Lionel, Sawyer & Collins v. Sunan Corp., a Nevada Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 2, 1993No. 91-16532PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEEZER, Circuit Judge:
Lionel, Sawyer & Collins (LSC), former counsel for plaintiffs, challenges the district court’s conditions to a voluntary dismissal order entered pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 41(a)(2). Plaintiffs accepted the conditions.
The first condition required that LSC pay $12,000 in attorney’s fees to Sunan Corporation (Sunan). LSC contends that the district court can neither condition a voluntary dismissal on former counsel’s payment of attorney’s fees when there is no independent stat utory basis, nor impose such condition when the voluntary dismissal was with prejudice. LSC contends…
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