Reimnitz v. Illinois

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that attorney’s fees and costs are generally not awarded in cases voluntarily dismissed with prejudice, absent “exceptional circumstances”
• “The reason for denying a fee award upon dismissal of claims with prejudice is simply that the defendant . . . has been freed of the risk of relitigation of the issues just as if the case had been adjudicated in his favor after a trial[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).