Court Opinion

ID: 6825502
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-23 19:24:23.186892+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:04:19.821727
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GORDON, Retired Justice,
concurring in result.
The correctness of the general district court’s action is not, in my opinion, fairly debatable.
Under federal practice a court, in granting a motion for voluntary dismissal, may impose such terms and conditions as it sees fit. Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(2). No statute or rule grants a Virginia court the authority to impose terms and conditions.
*340The general district court therefore had only one proper course of action. It should have dismissed the action, without more.
Reluctantly, I agree that the general district court had jurisdiction to commit error. Prohibition therefore does not lie.
RUSSELL, J., joins in concurring opinion.