“Dismissed without prejudice” is a legal term that means a case is dismissed but can still be refiled at a later point.
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Criminal Record and Dismissal Without Prejudice California law allows a case file and arrest record to remain a public record following dismissal without prejudice. However, as there was no trial, there is no conviction on record if the final result was a voluntary dismissal without prejudice.
A case dismissed with prejudice is over and done with, once and for all, and can't be brought back to court. A case dismissed without prejudice means the opposite. It's not dismissed forever. The person whose case it is can try again.
The dismissal ``without prejudice'' does not mean that you won the issue regarding the debt. It just means that the creditor stopped fighting in court without conceding that you won. So the dismissal ``without prejudice'' does not necessarily help your argument to remove this from your credit report.