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212931P.pdf   05/12/2022  Ricky Tillman, Jr.  v.  BNSF Railway Company
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  21-2931
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - Cape Girardeau   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Gruender and Grasz, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil procedure. The district court did not abuse its 
   discretion by granting plaintiffs' Rule 41(a)(2) motion to voluntarily 
   dismiss as the stated reasons for dismissal - to avoid multiplicitous 
   litigation, to prevent waste of judicial time, and to avoid the risk of 
   inconsistent verdicts - were proper grounds for dismissal; the district 
   court did not abuse its discretion in weighing the factors set out in Hamm 
   v. Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Pharms, Inc., 187 F.3d 941 (8th Cir. 1999), cert. 
   denied 528 U.S. 1117 (2000), in granting the motion.