Holste v. Burlington Northern Railroad

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding plaintiff’s right to voluntary dismissal before final submission “is not absolute”
• court can deny party's voluntary dismissal where party is necessary party to another claim in same action
• defendant in \any case\ has right to proceed to trial on counterclaim or setoff \although the plaintiff may have dismissed the action or failed to appear\
• court can deny party’s voluntary dismissal where party is necessary party to another claim in same action
• “Under Nebraska law, the focus is on the defendant’s actions regardless of the capacity in which those actions were undertaken.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).