Exxon Corporation v. Maryland Casualty Company

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that an invalid attempt to dismiss a claim under Rule 41(a) meant that the claim was “still pending in district court”
• noting that a plaintiff’s right to a voluntary dismissal “is not cut off by a motion to dismiss”
• stating that an amendment under Rule 15 is the proper vehicle through which a party may dismiss a claim against a defendant
• recognizing the district court converted a motion to dismiss into a motion for summary judgment where the motion to dismiss included matters outside the pleadings
• noting that \the purpose of the rule is to permit a plaintiff to take the case out of court at an early stage if no other will be prejudiced\
• distinguishing between impermissible Rule 41(a) dismissals of individual claims and permissible Rule 41(a) dismissals of individual defendants

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