Arenas v. Preston

How courts have described this case

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• holding that courts have discretion to set aside a voluntary dismissal with prejudice if the dismissal was done under duress or mistake of fact
• courts have discretion to set aside voluntary dismissal with prejudice if it was not a “free, calculated, and deliberate” choice
• \A voluntary dismissal with prejudice operates as a final adjudication on the merits.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).