Mercantile Nat. Bank at Dallas v. Langdeau

The Court’s opinion in these appeals, and some of the things said in Construction Laborers v. Curry, ante, p. 542, cut deeply into the statutory requirement of “finality” limiting our jurisdiction to review state court judgments.1

That requirement is more than a technical rule of jsrocedure, yielding when need be to the exigencies of particular situations. Rather, it is a long-standing and healthy federal policy that protects litigants and courts from the disruptions of piecemeal review and forecloses this Court from passing on constitutional issues that may be dissipated by the final outcome…