Legal Opinion
Gelboim v. Bank of America Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 21, 2015No. 13-1174PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ginsburg
An unsuccessful litigant in a federal district court may take an appeal, as a matter of right, from a "final decisio[n] of the district cour[t]." 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . The question here presented: Is the right to appeal secured by § 1291affected when a case is consolidated for pretrial proceedings in multidistrict litigation (or MDL) authorized by 28 U.S.C. § 1407 ?
Petitioners Ellen Gelboim and Linda Zacher filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York a class-action complaint raising a single claim. They alleged that a number of banks, acting in concert, had…
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