Burnette v. Godshall

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• declining to 4 award costs and attorney fees where dismissal was with prejudice “because there is no future risk 5 of litigation”
• finding dismissal would not 15 cause detriment where defendants “ha[d] not counterclaimed or otherwise filed for affirmative 16 relief to be sufficiently prejudiced by dismissal of the fifth cause of action.”
• “Labor Code section 6400 relates to the physical conditions of the workplace (i.e., machinery repairs, toxics, etc.) and not to employee conduct”
• “[W]hen a court considers 28 a request for sanctions, it must resolve all doubts in favor of the signer of the pleading or paper.”
• “[I]t 27 weighs in Plaintiffs’ favor that the trial has not yet started and no pretrial motions were 28 pending at the time the dismissal motion was filed.”
• “[I]t 20 weighs in Plaintiffs’ favor that the trial has not yet started and no pretrial motions were 21 pending at the time the dismissal motion was filed.”

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