Makar v. Investors Real Estate Management, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding a judgment is a final adjudication of the merits of an action
• in order for a defendant to recover costs and attorney's fees under section 768.79(1)(a), there must be a judgment for the plaintiff
• a voluntary dismissal operates as a judgment on the merits only after a previous voluntary dismissal
• “A voluntary dismissal, however, is not a judgment on the merits.”
• \A judgment is a court's decision on the merits as to whether the plaintiff shall obtain the relief sought in the litigation.\ (first citing Francisco v. Victoria Marine Shipping, Inc., 486 So. 2d 1386, 1391 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).