Municipality of San Juan v. Rullan

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• explaining □□ that dicta “comprises observations in a judicial opinion or order that are not essential to the determination of the legal questions then before the court’’
• discussing treatment of a \district court's editorial comments\ as \mere dicta\
• “Dicta comprises observations in a judicial opinion or order that are ‘not essential’ to the determination of the legal questions then before the court.”
• \Dicta -- as opposed to a court's holdings -- have no binding effect in subsequent proceedings in the same (or any other) case.\
• a district court may retain jurisdiction over a settlement agreement after dismissal pursuant to Rule 41(a)(1)(ii

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