McKelvey v. Kismet, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a defendant is entitled to prevailing party attorney’s fees where all of the counts in the plaintiffs complaint were either voluntarily dismissed or dismissed for the plaintiffs failure to state a cause of action
• finding “costs are to be assessed immediately after a dismissal is entered”
• “[T]he term ‘prevailing party’ is applicable to a defendant against whom a voluntary dismissal is taken.”
• “If by contract or statute attorneys fees are made a part of the costs between the parties, these fees must also be assessed and a judgment entered in that action.”
• court has jurisdiction to award costs after cause is voluntarily dismissed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).