Legal Opinion
Johnson Chemical Company, Inc. v. Home Care Products, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 7, 1987No. 1171, Docket 87-7125PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MESKILL, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from an order entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Cannella, J., granting the motion of defendant Home Care Products, Inc. (Home Care) to vacate plaintiff Johnson Chemical Company’s (Johnson) notice of voluntary dismissal brought under Fed.R.Civ.P. 41(a)(l)(i) and awarding to Home Care all costs incurred in defense of the action as a sanction against Johnson under Fed.R.Civ.P. 11. The district court held that Johnson’s voluntary dismissal constituted an abuse of court process. For the reasons that follow,…
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