Legal Opinion
Picard v. Katz
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided January 17, 2012No. 11 Civ. 3605(JSR)PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
JED S. RAKOFF, District Judge.
No principle of federal jurisprudence has proved more efficacious than the “final judgment rule,” by which a district court’s interim rulings may not normally be appealed until the case is over and final judgment rendered. Naturally, any party that loses an important interim ruling wants to appeal immediately, believing that a parade of horribles will follow if the district court’s supposed error is not immediately corrected. But, as many state jurisdictions have learned to their detriment, the result of permitting interim appeals is vexatious…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Coopers & Lybrand v. LivesaySupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Harriscom Svenska Ab v. Harris CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1991
- Slatkin v. NeilsonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2008
- Jackson v. Mishkin (In Re Adler, Coleman Clearing Corp.)District Court, S.D. New York · 2001
- Enron Creditors Recovery Corp. v. Alfa, S.A.B. De C.V.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2011
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3Cited by14 opinions
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