Monthly Archives: June 2021

Split Eleventh Circuit Panel Holds That Filing of Voluntary Dismissal Under Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(A)(i) Cut-Off District Court’s Power to Modify Protective Order

In Absolute Activist Value Master Fund Ltd. v. Devine, No. 20-10237 (11th Cir. May 28, 2021), the panel majority holds that the plaintiffs hedge funds’ (the Funds) filing of a Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i) “voluntary dismissal stripped the District Court of jurisdiction to consider [defendant] Devine’s post-dismissal motion to modify” a protective order. Defendant Devine and herContinue reading “Split Eleventh Circuit Panel Holds That Filing of Voluntary Dismissal Under Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(A)(i) Cut-Off District Court’s Power to Modify Protective Order”