Attorneys – Fees – SLAPP – Voluntary dismissal
Where (1) a defendant filed a special motion to dismiss pursuant to the anti-SLAPP statute, G.L.c. 231, §59H, and (2) the plaintiffs responded by voluntarily dismissing the complaint, the defendant is...
View ArticleCivil practice – Savings statute – Voluntary dismissal
Where plaintiffs, who voluntarily dismissed their claims, have since refiled them under the Massachusetts savings statute (G.L.c. 260, §32), the statute does not save the claims, as the voluntary...
View ArticleCivil practice – Savings statute – Voluntary dismissal
Where plaintiffs who voluntarily dismissed a Delaware lawsuit filed a substantially similar suit in Massachusetts Superior Court, the plaintiffs’ claims that were dismissed in Delaware “for any matter...
View ArticleSavings statute doesn’t bar re-filing of lawsuit
The Appeals Court has ruled that plaintiffs that voluntarily dismissed a suit in Delaware were not barred under the Massachusetts Savings Statute from re-filing in Superior Court. The defendants argued...
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