FINLEY LINES JT. PROTECT. BD. v. NORFOLK SO. CORP.

No. 96-1517.

109 F.3d 993 (1997)

FINLEY LINES JOINT PROTECTIVE BOARD UNIT 200, BROTHERHOOD RAILWAY CARMEN, A DIVISION OF TRANSPORTATION COMMUNICATIONS UNION; Jack H. Wright, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION; Norfolk Southern Railway Company, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 3, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Newton G. McCoy, C. Marshall Friedman, P.C., St. Louis, Missouri, for Appellants. Frank Huger Gibbes, III, Gibbes, Gallivan & White, Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: C. Marshall Friedman, Kenneth E. Rudd, C. Marshall Friedman, P.C., St. Louis, Missouri; Susan Ingles, Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellants. Stephanie H. Burton, Gibbes, Gallivan & White, Greenville, South Carolina; Mark D. Perreault, Norfolk Southern Corporation, Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellees.

Before RUSSELL, MURNAGHAN, and MOTZ, Circuit Judges.


Reversed by published opinion. Judge MOTZ wrote the opinion, in which Judge RUSSELL and Judge MURNAGHAN joined.

OPINION

DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from an order vacating a notice of voluntary dismissal. Because at the time plaintiffs filed the notice, defendants had not answered the complaint, moved for summary judgment, or filed a motion to dismiss that had been treated as a motion for summary judgment, we reverse.

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