Burlingham v. Brown

• Court: District Court, W.D. Washington
• Decided: February 11, 2021
• Docket: 2:20-cv-00586
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

THE HONORABLE JOHN C. COUGHENOUR 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 8 AT SEATTLE 9 KELLIE BURLINGHAM, CASE NO. C20-0586-JCC 10 Plaintiff, MINUTE ORDER 11 v. 12 MICHAEL BROWN, et al., 13 Defendants. 14

15 The following Minute Order is made by direction of the Court, the Honorable John C. 16 Coughenour, United States District Judge: 17 This matter comes before the Court on the parties’ stipulated notice of dismissal of 18 Plaintiff Kellie Burlingham’s claims against the individual defendants1 (Dkt. No. 37). Federal 19 Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A)(ii) provides that a “plaintiff may dismiss an action without a 20 court order by filing . . . a stipulation of dismissal signed by all parties who have appeared.” 21 Here, the parties nevertheless request that the Court enter a proposed order filed with their 22 stipulation. 23 The parties have stipulated to dismissing all claims against the individual defendants with 24 prejudice, and the stipulation is signed by all parties who have appeared. (See Dkt. No. 37.) The 25 Ninth Circuit has held that a “plaintiff may dismiss some or all of the defendants . . . through a

26 1 Michael Brown, Ashley Elliott, Matthew Garner, Daniel Perrine, Aaron Scott, and Christopher Wyche. 1 Rule 41(a)(1) notice.” Wilson v. City of San Jose, 111 F.3d 688, 692 (9th Cir. 1997). Thus, under 2 Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A)(ii), the stipulation is self-executing. All claims 3 against the individual defendants are DISMISSED with prejudice and without costs to any party, 4 with each party to bear its own attorney fees and other litigation expenses. 5 6 DATED this 11th day of February 2021. 7 William M. McCool Clerk of Court 8 s/Paula McNabb 9 Deputy Clerk 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26