(Excerpt) Part I provides background on finality, including an overview of the final judgment rule and other statutory grants of appellate jurisdiction. Part I then discusses consent judgments, including conditional consent judgments. Part II examines the circuit splits with respect to issues of finality and the appealability of consent judgments that reserve a right to appeal. Part III presents arguments for and against strict interpretation and application of the finality requirement regarding consent judgments. Part IV argues for resolving the controversy by adopting a standard by which appellate courts uniformly recognize a consent judgment’s reservation of a right to appeal certain adverse rulings. This Note concludes by explaining how...
The Federal Magistrates Act permits a U.S. magistrate judge to preside over and enter final judgment...
In the wake of this uncertainty, this Note analyzes the proper scope of judicial review of consent d...
In the wake of this uncertainty, this Note analyzes the proper scope of judicial review of consent d...
(Excerpt) Part I provides background on finality, including an overview of the final judgment rule a...
Where the parties settle a dispute and a court enters a judgment upon the parties\u27 consent, that ...
I begin in Part I by describing the dynamics of the consent decree process: why parties want consent...
The Judicial Code provides that the circuit courts of appeal shall have appellate jurisdiction to r...
The subject of this symposium is consent decrees, and I have been asked to think about judges and co...
In recent decades, the paths from federal district courts to the federal circuit courts of appeals h...
A proper notice of appeal is a necessary first step inmost federal appeals. But federal litigants so...
The scope of appellate jurisdiction after final judgment has long been relatively clear. The scope o...
The scope of appellate jurisdiction after final judgment has long been relatively clear. The scope o...
For nearly eighty years the Department of Justice has disposed of civil antitrust suits through sett...
For nearly eighty years the Department of Justice has disposed of civil antitrust suits through sett...
Although the nineteenth century\u27s final judgment rule no longer represents an absolute barrier to...
The Federal Magistrates Act permits a U.S. magistrate judge to preside over and enter final judgment...
In the wake of this uncertainty, this Note analyzes the proper scope of judicial review of consent d...
In the wake of this uncertainty, this Note analyzes the proper scope of judicial review of consent d...
(Excerpt) Part I provides background on finality, including an overview of the final judgment rule a...
Where the parties settle a dispute and a court enters a judgment upon the parties\u27 consent, that ...
I begin in Part I by describing the dynamics of the consent decree process: why parties want consent...
The Judicial Code provides that the circuit courts of appeal shall have appellate jurisdiction to r...
The subject of this symposium is consent decrees, and I have been asked to think about judges and co...
In recent decades, the paths from federal district courts to the federal circuit courts of appeals h...
A proper notice of appeal is a necessary first step inmost federal appeals. But federal litigants so...
The scope of appellate jurisdiction after final judgment has long been relatively clear. The scope o...
The scope of appellate jurisdiction after final judgment has long been relatively clear. The scope o...
For nearly eighty years the Department of Justice has disposed of civil antitrust suits through sett...
For nearly eighty years the Department of Justice has disposed of civil antitrust suits through sett...
Although the nineteenth century\u27s final judgment rule no longer represents an absolute barrier to...
The Federal Magistrates Act permits a U.S. magistrate judge to preside over and enter final judgment...
In the wake of this uncertainty, this Note analyzes the proper scope of judicial review of consent d...
In the wake of this uncertainty, this Note analyzes the proper scope of judicial review of consent d...