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  2. Voluntary dismissal - Wikipedia

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    A voluntary dismissal with prejudice (meaning the plaintiff is permanently barred from further litigating the same subject matter) is the modern descendant of the common law procedure known as retraxit. [1] In the United States, voluntary dismissal in Federal court is subject to Rule 41(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Rule 41(a)'s ...

  3. Prejudice (legal term) - Wikipedia

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    In general, an action taken with prejudice is final. For example, dismissal with prejudice forbids a party to refile the case and might occur because of misconduct on the part of the party that filed the claim or criminal complaint or as the result of an out-of-court agreement or settlement. Dismissal without prejudice (Latin: salvis iuribus, lit.

  4. Nolle prosequi - Wikipedia

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    Nolle prosequi, [a] abbreviated nol or nolle pros, is legal Latin meaning "to be unwilling to pursue". [3] [4] It is a type of prosecutorial discretion in common law, used for prosecutors' declarations that they are voluntarily ending a criminal case before trial or before a verdict is rendered; [5] it is a kind of motion to dismiss and contrasts with an involuntary dismissal.

  5. Voluntariness - Wikipedia

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    In law and philosophy, voluntariness is a choice being made of a person's free will, as opposed to being made as the result of coercion or duress.Philosophies such as libertarianism and voluntaryism, as well as many legal systems, hold that a contract must be voluntarily agreed to by a party in order to be binding on that party.

  6. Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez - Wikipedia

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    Arthur James Lomax v. Christina Ortiz-Marquez et al., 590 U.S. ___ (2020) was a Supreme Court case in which the court held that in situations and proceedings in which a prisoner is filing to proceed In forma pauperis, as it pertains to the "3 strikes" system set out in 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), a dismissal without prejudice counts for failure to state a claim counts as a "strike.

  7. Judge Charged With Ethics Violations in Daughters' School ...

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    A New Jersey judge under fire for allegedly acting belligerently after her daughters were expelled from their parochial school is disputing that she violated judicial ethics rules during an ...

  8. Speedy Trial Act - Wikipedia

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    The Act provides a sanction of dismissal for violation of its time limits that may be with or without prejudice to reprosecution. In assessing whether dismissal should be with prejudice, the court must consider the seriousness of the offense, the circumstances leading to dismissal, and the impact that reprosecution would have on the ...

  9. Termination of employment - Wikipedia

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    Termination may be voluntary on the employee's part (resignation), or it may be at the hands of the employer, often in the form of dismissal (firing) or a layoff. Dismissal or firing is usually thought to be the employee's fault, whereas a layoff is generally done for business reasons (for instance, a business slowdown or an economic downturn ...