I don't believe it was his job to protect you from any legal actions, ....
The law for Rule 41(a)(2) dismissals is that the judge must craft conditions that will protect the defendants from legal prejudice. That can include undue expense. Thus, for plaintiffs to litigate, then dismiss, then litigate, then dismiss repeatedly in order to bankrupt defendants, that is one thing judges would be expected to prevent by the conditions they craft.
Once defendants answer the complaint, plaintiffs no longer have an absolute right to dismiss their lawsuit. That's why 3ABN had to file a motion rather than a notice. Such motions sometimes are denied.
... especially if you continue in the activities which brought you to those legal actions to begin with.
If someone exercises their freedoms of religion, press, and speech, they should not be sued once, much less repeatedly, if all they said was the truth.
Further, one should not be sued for blowing the whistle on Danny's cover up of the child molestation allegations against Tommy.
Telling the truth is not illegal in America.
I am quite sure they promised to sue you again, if you continued. They cease, you cease. They don't cease and you get to continue.
Simpson explicitly told me on Oct. 17, 2008, that if we agreed to let them drop the suit and release them from all liability, that each side would be free to keep talking about the other side.
The threat he sent us on Oct. 30, 2008, was that if anything we said could be traced to a confidential document, that his instructions were to immediately seek relief in the court.
However, on Oct. 31, 2008, he made it clear that he would harass us over our sharing information that we got long before the suit was ever filed.
I am also sure that they promised to haul you back into court, if you tried to keep those docs, being unsure of your purpose in retaining them.
We have a legal right to keep those documents. If they didn't like the fact that Hillman's confidentiality order allows us to keep the documents, they should have appealed Hillman's order. Have they done that? No! Therefore, we don't have to return anything.
For them to take them away anyway is called theft.
Or did they nearly promise to come after you no matter what you did? If that was the case, what was the purpose of dropping the present suit?
That's a question Gailon asked Simpson in response to one of his threats. Why did they drop the suit if they weren't ready to drop it all? It was a ploy that they thought they could use to muzzle us and take away all our evidence. But it didn't work.