Legal Opinion
Quilling v. Funding Resource Group
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 6, 2000No. 99-10824PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Per curiam
Appellant B. David Gilliland appeals from the district court’s orders finding him in contempt of court, and denying his emergency motion to vacate and emergency motion to stay the contempt order. Because we conclude that the contempt order does not constitute a final order for the purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and that we therefore lack jurisdiction to review it, we dismiss the appeal.
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
The contempt order appealed from here arises out of a civil enforcement action brought by Plaintiff-Appellee the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) against a number…
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