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A motion or application for leave is a motion filed with the court seeking permission to deviate from an established rule or procedure of the court. [ 1 ] The most common use of a motion for leave is to seek an extension to an already-passed time frame to amend a court pleading , which is allowed once under the Federal Rules of Criminal ...
A "motion to dismiss" asks the court to decide that a claim, even if true as stated, is not one for which the law offers a legal remedy.As an example, a claim that the defendant failed to greet the plaintiff while passing the latter on the street, insofar as no legal duty to do so may exist, would be dismissed for failure to state a valid claim: the court must assume the truth of the factual ...
After a motion is placed before the assembly, permission from the assembly is required to withdraw it or modify it. [11] Sometimes a "friendly amendment" is requested on a pending motion. If the motion is before the assembly, only the assembly (not the maker of the motion) could modify it. [12] However, it can be settled by unanimous consent. [3]
The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure provide in rule 7(f) that "the court may direct the government to file a bill of particulars".. In U.S. state law, the bill of particulars was abolished in nearly all court systems in the 1940s and 1950s due to the widespread recognition that much of the information requested could be obtained more efficiently through the discovery process.
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In some jurisdictions, such as New York, an "order to show cause" is used routinely to initiate a motion when a traditional "notice of motion" would not be sufficient—for example, when the moving party wishes to vary the usual schedule for considering a motion, or when a temporary restraining order or other provisional remedy is being sought ...
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.
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