Safeguard Business Systems, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Judith Hoeffel, D/B/A Judith Hoeffel Company

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• noting that the court has \declined to consider whether certain actions of the court or parties constitute the equivalent of an answer or a motion for summary judgment\
• district court’s orders and judgments filed after a Fed.R.Civ.P. 41(a)(1) notice of dismissal are void for want of jurisdiction
• plaintiff has no right to a voluntary dismissal if plaintiff's request for dismissal comes after defendant's answer or motion for summary judgment
• \There may be rare cases with extreme circumstances in which a district court enters a judgment on the merits at an early stage of the proceedings . . . in which the use of Rule 41(a)(1) is foreclosed.\

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