Klahn v. Secretary of Department of Health & Human Sevices

How courts have described this case

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• “If the [voluntary] dismissal is with prejudice, the dismissed action in effect has been adjudicated upon the merits, and an action based on or including the same claim may not be retried.”
• a voluntary dismissal with prejudice operates as an adjudication on the merits
• “If the dismissal is with prejudice, the dismissed action in effect has been adjudicated upon the merits, and an action based on or including the same claim may not be retried. Thus, an action dismissed ‘with prejudice’ is vulnerable to the defense of res judicata.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).