Northeast Mental Health-Mental Retardation Commission v. Cleveland

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Northeast Mental Health-Mental Retardation Commission (the Commission) appeals the partial grant of summary judgment in favor of V.M. Cleveland, which the chancellor had certified as final and ap-pealable under Mississippi Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b). But just because an order is declared to be final and appealable *1022does not necessarily make it so.1 And in this case, the order certified as final did not fall within the “limited category of decisions” to which Rule 54(b) may be applied.2 Thus, the Rule 54(b) certification was invalid.

¶ 2. Because the decision…