Legal Opinion
George Cleaver and Edith Cleaver v. James D. Elias and Laura J. Elias
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 15, 1988No. 88-2088PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
A premature notice of appeal disrupts proceedings in the district court. That court must put the case aside and wait for this one to send the record back. Such a notice also imposes unjustified costs on the adversary, whose lawyers must monitor the case and file papers in two courts at once, and on the judges who must set things straight. Robert H. Snow, attorney for James and Laura Elias, has filed such a notice of appeal, after the district judge told Snow that there was no judgment to appeal. Having sanctioned Snow under Fed.R.Civ.P. 11 earlier in the case for…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Coopers & Lybrand v. LivesaySupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. v. Mayacamas Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Liberty Mutual Insurance v. WetzelSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Bankers Trust Co. v. MallisSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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3Cited by17 opinions
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- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Estate of Herbert CammonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1991
- Orrego v. 833 West Buena Joint VentureCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1991
- Helen Trzcinski, Cross-Appellant v. American Casualty Co., Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1990
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