Furtado v. Laferriere

I respectfully dissent. The plaintiff waited over ten months after the motion justice entered the order granting defendant’s summary-judgment motion to file her notice of appeal. It was only after defendant moved for, and obtained, the entry of a final judgment on a separate document that plaintiff apparently decided to appeal. In these circumstances, I would hold that the plaintiff waived her right to obtain appellate review by failing to take an appeal from the order granting a summary judgment in a timely manner and by failing to obtain the entry of a final judgment within a reasonable…