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Defendants: Case Study

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COMES NOW the Plaintiff, the State of Kansas ex rel. Schmidt, and submits this reply and memorandum in support of its motion for an order dismissing this action. For the reasons previously stated and as further supported herein, Plaintiff is entitled to an order dismissing this action as a matter of right. Plaintiff further states: State’s Reply to Defendants’ Response 1. The first two sections of Defendants’ Response only restate portions of the Mo-tion to Dismiss and of K.S.A. 60-241(a)(2), and require no reply. 2. In paragraph 3 the Defendants claim they will be “substantially prejudiced” by a grant of the Motion to Dismiss unless the Court takes affirmative action on motions the Defend-ants have not yet filed. The Defendants contemporaneously …show more content…

Granting Plaintiffs’ Motion to Dismiss will additionally avoid further litigation regarding the issue of payment of the cost of rendering the discovery records into a form capable of being produced, and either avoid the Defendants’ having to make payment of such cost in or-der for the records to be produced, or avoid Plaintiff sustaining such costs. The General Rule Allows Voluntary Dismissals as a Matter of Course Under the rule stated in the leading case of Gideon v. Bo-Mar Homes, Inc., 205 Kan. 321, 326 (1970), it is a traditional principle that dismissals are to be allowed. A court is required to consider the rights of the parties and how they will be affected, and what benefits or injuries may result to the respective sides in the controversy if a dismissal is granted; but, where only the equi-ties of the defendant are considered, and the facts and authorities they cite show they would suf-fer no plain “legal prejudice,” a denial of the dismissal resulted the plaintiff being “deprived of valuable rights” which outweighed whatever minor prejudices the defendant might have in-curred, if any. Gideon, 205 Kan. at 327-328. The sole case cited in Defendants’ Response, Estate of Nilges v. Shawnee Gun Shop, Inc., 44 Kan. App. 2d 905, Syl. ¶ 2, (2010), in which the Court of Appeals reversed the trial court’s decision granting the motion to dismiss with prejudice, the Court acknowledged Gideon’s general rule, and stated that a voluntary dismissal is “more of a right of the

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