Legal Opinion
Mother and Father v. James Cassidy
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 30, 2003No. 01-2832PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
This case presents an interesting twist on the perennial problem of how to coordinate related federal and state court litigation. Put simply, the question is whether a district court may transfer the determination of costs allowed under Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(d) for a prevailing defendant to a state court that has before it certain state-law claims that were originally part of the federal suit, when the plaintiff has voluntarily dismissed her federal-law claims with prejudice under Fed. R. Civ. P. 41. For a number of reasons, we conclude that the answer is no, and we…
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