Stubbs v. Patterson Dental Laboratories

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• concluding that the inclusion of the words “with prejudice” does not make a stipulated dismissal a final determination on the merits, so long as the parties did not “enter[] into a compromise and settlement of the first case”
• distinguishing cases in which the parties dismiss a case “pursuant to a settlement of the controversy” and ones in which they dismiss for other reasons and concluding that only the former type of dismissal counts as a judgment “on the merits”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).