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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.
Voluntary dismissal is termination of a lawsuit by voluntary request of the plaintiff (the party who originally filed the lawsuit). 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 .
The dismissal itself may be appealed. If it is a "voluntary dismissal with prejudice", it is the result of an out-of-court agreement or settlement between parties that they agree is final. If the case is dismissed "without prejudice", the lawsuit can be filed again by the plaintiff.
Judge Jan Soifer dismissed the lawsuit "with prejudice, meaning that it cannot be refiled, although an appeal is considered likely. Judge dismisses Ken Paxton's lawsuit seeking to nullify Austin's ...
After a class action lawsuit, in 2021, the village of Hoosick Falls received a $65.25 million settlement from Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, Honeywell, 3M, and DuPont due to the disposal of PFAS chemicals into the groundwater of the local water treatment plant.
She dismissed the lawsuit, adding that the plaintiff’s claims were akin to “attempting to hold an application like Venmo or Zelle liable for a drug deal that used the platform to facilitate a ...
The settlement of the lawsuit defines legal requirements of the parties and is often put in force by an order of the court after a joint stipulation by the parties. In other situations (as where the claims have been satisfied by the payment of a certain sum of money), the plaintiff and defendant can simply file a notice that the case has been ...
A civil lawsuit seeking damages against a 28-year-old member of the Akron/Kent Proud Boys who was accused of yelling a slur and attacking a Black woman in 2022 was dismissed Tuesday morning during ...