High court limits judges' power to reopen cases

Reaching beyond the foreclosure case presented, the Florida Supreme Court held that trial courts can?t reinstate a civil lawsuit that the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed without prejudice, only to dismiss it with prejudice as a sanction, unless the plaintiff obtains affirmative relief to the detriment of the defendant.

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