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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 300', '§ 1983', '§ 157', '§ 1291', '§ 1291', '§ 158']

13 Collier Bankr.cas.2d 336, Bankr. L. Rep. P 70,686in Re King Memorial Hospital, Inc. and Florida Hospitalgroup, Inc., Debtors.hialeah Hospital, Inc., Plaintiff-appellant, v. Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, State Offlorida; Robert A. Schatzman and Justin P. Havee,co-trustees of King Memorial Hospital, Inc. and Floridahospital Group, Inc.; Miami Capital Development, Inc., Andrepublic Health Corporation, Defendants-appellees, 767 F.2d 1508 (11th Cir. 1985) :: Justia
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13 Collier Bankr.cas.2d 336, Bankr. L. Rep. P 70,686in Re King Memorial Hospital, Inc. and Florida Hospitalgroup, Inc., Debtors.hialeah Hospital, Inc., Plaintiff-appellant, v. Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, State Offlorida; Robert A. Schatzman and Justin P. Havee,co-trustees of King Memorial Hospital, Inc. and Floridahospital Group, Inc.; Miami Capital Development, Inc., Andrepublic Health Corporation, Defendants-appellees, 767 F.2d 1508 (11th Cir. 1985)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit - 767 F.2d 1508 (11th Cir. 1985) Aug. 12, 1985
Hialeah subsequently brought this suit seeking relief based on the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. §§ 300k, et seq. (Federal Act), the Health Facilities and Health Services Planning Act (State Act), Fla.Stat. Secs. 381.493, et seq. (1983), regulations promulgated pursuant to the Federal Act and the State Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
Prior to trial, on July 11, 1984, Hialeah Hospital filed a motion to withdraw reference of the proceeding from the bankruptcy court pursuant to Emergency Rule 2(c) of the Interim Bankruptcy Rules. The district court denied the motion on July 23, 1984. On August 3, 1984, Hialeah Hospital filed a Renewed Motion to Withdraw the Reference on the ground that, since resolution of the proceeding required consideration of Title 11 and other laws of the United States which regulate organizations or activities affecting interstate commerce, withdrawal was mandated by 28 U.S.C. § 157(d).1 The district court denied the motion on August 17, 1984. On August 17, 1984, Hialeah Hospital filed its notice of appeal to this court from the order denying the motion to withdraw the reference, and the order denying the renewed motion to withdraw the reference. On October 3, 1984, the bankruptcy court entered findings of fact and conclusions of law and a final judgment in Hialeah's adversary proceeding denying Hialeah Hospital all relief requested.
This court has jurisdiction to entertain appeals only of final decisions and certain specified interlocutory decisions of a district court. 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291, 12922 (1982). Where it appears that we have no jurisdiction over an appeal, we raise that issue sua sponte.
An order is not final unless it "ends the litigation on the merits and leaves nothing for the court to do but exercise the judgment." Pitney Bowes, Inc. v. Mestre, 701 F.2d 1365, 1368 (11th Cir.), cert. denied --- U.S. ----, 104 S. Ct. 239, 78 L. Ed. 2d 230 (1983), quoting Catlin v. United States, 324 U.S. 229, 233, 65 S. Ct. 631, 633, 89 L. Ed. 911 (1945). In this case the bankruptcy proceeding itself continued after the district court order; therefore the order appealed from did not end the litigation on the merits. Motions to withdraw reference from the bankruptcy court under Sec. 157(d) essentially only determine the forum in which final decisions will be reached. An order by a district court granting or denying the withdrawal of reference is not a final order under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. See In re Dalton, 733 F.2d 710, 714 (10th Cir. 1984). Even if we interpreted the motion before the district court as challenging the bankruptcy court's jurisdiction to adjudicate the matter at all, it is well settled that the denial of a motion to dismiss, when the motion is based upon jurisdictional grounds, in no way terminates the action, making the order interlocutory. Catlin v. United States, 324 U.S. at 236, 65 S. Ct. at 635.
If the order does not end the litigation, it must be determined whether it falls within an exception to the final judgment rule. Farr v. Heckler, 729 F.2d 1426, 1427 (11th Cir. 1984). The primary jurisprudential exception to the collateral order doctrine is Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 69 S. Ct. 1221, 93 L. Ed. 1528 (1949).
Cohen 's collateral order exception only permits appeals from orders which: (1) finally determine claims collateral to and separable from the substance of other claims in the action; (2) cannot be reviewed along with the eventual final judgment because by then effective review will be precluded and rights conferred will be lost, and (3) are too important to be denied review because they present a serious and unsettled question of law. See In re Tidewater Group, Inc., 734 F.2d 794, 796-97 (11th Cir. 1984); Bennett v. Behring Corp., 629 F.2d 393, 395 (5th Cir. 1980).
Pub. L. 98-353, Title I, Sec. 104(a), July 10, 1984, 98 Stat. 340.
Title 28 U.S.C. § 158 gives this court jurisdiction of final decisions, judgments, orders, and decrees entered by the district court in bankruptcy proceedings