Mullen v. Heinkel Filtering Systems, Inc.

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• noting that the court has discretion not to award fees and costs when dismissing under Rule 41(a)
• upholding a dismissal without prejudice when the magistrate judge had held two discovery-dispute conferences and the case was still in the early stages of discovery
• affirming grant of voluntary dismissal where the case was only in the early stages of discovery
• finding no prejudice resulting from dismissal based on defendant’s “loss of the tactical advantage of the magistrate judge’s ruling denying [the plaintiff’s] motion to extend the expert deadline”
• noting, while affirming an unconditional dismissal without prejudice, that the plaintiff had not served discovery; that while the defendant had responded to some interrogatories and produced 35,000 pages of documents it never objected; and that no depositions had been taken
• finding no abuse of discretion in denial of fees

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