James L. Beck v. Caterpillar Inc. And United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America

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• holding that the statute of limitations was not tolled and continued to run when plaintiff voluntarily dismissed his first suit under Rule 41(a)
• holding that the statute of limitations was not tolled and continued to run when plaintiff voluntarily dismissed his first suit under Rule 41(a)
• when timeliness of purely federal claim filed in federal court is measured by federal statute of limitations, state savings statute does not apply
• “[T]hat suit was voluntarily dismissed pursuant to FED. R. CIV. P. 41(a), and is treated as if it had never been filed.”
• “While [plaintiff’s] first lawsuit was filed within the limitations period, that suit was voluntarily dismissed . . . and is treated as if it had never been filed.”
• the statute of limitations continues to run during the pendency of a timely filed case, and a voluntarily dismissed suit “is treated as if it had never been filed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).