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Involuntary dismissal is made by a defendant through a motion for dismissal, on grounds that plaintiff is not prosecuting the case, is not complying with a court order, or to comply with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Involuntary dismissal can also be made by order of the judge when no defendant has made a motion to dismiss.
California's expungement law permits someone convicted of a crime to file a Petition for Dismissal [9] with the court to re-open the case, set aside the plea, and dismiss the case. [10] In order for one to qualify for expungement, the petitioner must have completed probation, paid all fines and restitution, and not currently be charged with a ...
In law, wrongful dismissal, also called wrongful termination or wrongful discharge, is a situation in which an employee's contract of employment has been terminated by the employer, where the termination breaches one or more terms of the contract of employment, or a statute provision or rule in employment law.
President-elect Trump’s attorneys signaled an effort to try to run out the clock on his New York hush money case, asking Judge Juan Merchan for a month to mount a formal effort to dismiss his ...
Trump was convicted in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with a coverup of a "hush money" payment made before his first election to office in 2016. But he has not been ...
When defendants want to remove, they ordinarily must do so within 30 days of receiving the complaint, "through service or otherwise", under 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b). An exception applies if diversity jurisdiction, and thus removal jurisdiction, is lacking at the time of the initial pleading in state court, but becomes available within a year after ...
President-elect Donald Trump's criminal hush money conviction in New York must be dismissed "to facilitate the orderly transition of Executive power," Trump's defense attorneys argued Wednesday in ...
In contrast, criminal forfeiture is a legal action brought as "part of the criminal prosecution of a defendant", described by the Latin term in personam, meaning "against the person", and happens when government indicts or charges the property that is either used in connection with a crime, or derived from a crime, that is suspected of being ...