Appeals before judgment
Young v. College
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Dana F. Young argued that the Fifth Circuit wrongly treated a district-court memorandum as nonfinal for appeal, despite a same-day case-closure notice and a later formal judgment.
- Who it affects
- The Fifth Circuit’s decision remains in place for Young, but the Supreme Court did not decide whether the district-court memorandum was appealable.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The Supreme Court refused to hear her case (denied review), so it did not decide whether the memorandum could count as an appealable decision.
The dispute centers on whether a district-court memo and a same-day case-closure notice could count as an appealable decision before a formal judgment was entered.
Question presented
1. Whether the court of appeals misapplied Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(2) and this Court’s decision in *FirsTier Mortgage Co. v. Investors Mortgage Insurance Co.*, 498 U. S. 269 (1991), by characterizing the district court’s memorandum as “clearly interlocutory” rather than determining whether it was a decision that would be appealable if immediately followed by the entry of judgment? 2. Whether a district court memorandum accompanied by a same-day case-closure notice and later followed by entry of Rule 58 judgment may reasonably be understood as dispositive for purposes of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(2) and 28 U. S. C. §1291?
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