Feeley v. Illinois

How courts have described this case

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• finding that an attempt by parents to “deprogram” their son through a process that would force him to renounce his religious beliefs demonstrated “anti-religious animus”
• finding that an award of attorney’s fees and costs is “not ordinarily paired with a dismissal with prejudice” absent exceptional circumstances
• declining to award fees when the frivolous claim “added no additional testimony or expense to the trial”
• declin ing to award fees when the frivolous claim “added no additional testimony or expense to the trial”
• “[W]hen a lawsuit is voluntarily dismissed with prejudice under Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(2), attorneys' fees have almost never been awarded.”
• “Fee awards are often made when a plaintiff dismisses a suit without prejudice under Rule 41(a)(2).” (emphasis omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).