Opinion ID: 2745480
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Appellate Justiciability

Text: The plaintiffs mistakenly argue that this interlocutory appeal is untimely, and that this court lacks jurisdiction over the appeal. Under CAFA, [i]f the court of appeals accepts an appeal under paragraph (1), the court shall complete all action on such appeal, including rendering judgment, not later than 60 days after the date on which such appeal was filed, unless an extension is granted under paragraph (3). 28 U.S.C. § 1453(c)(2). The plaintiffs claim that CVS filed its appeal on April 7, 2014, and that an appellate decision was due by May 30, 2014. The April 7, 2014, filing was not an appeal, but a petition for permission to appeal. Under CAFA, the appellate court had discretion to grant CVS permission to appeal, and no appeal -10- existed until we did so. See id. As the Fifth Circuit has persuasively reasoned: When a party files a notice of appeal, there is, at that very point in time, an appeal, albeit one that may later be subject to dismissal for jurisdictional or procedural insufficiency. Where, however, a party applies for leave to appeal, or seeks permission to do so, there is logically no appeal until the court vested with the authority to grant or deny leave has done so. Patterson v. Dean Morris, L.L.P., 444 F.3d 365, 369 (5th Cir. 2006). The sixty-day deadline for appellate consideration begins to accrue from the date on which the court of appeals grants permission to appeal. Coll. of Dental Surgeons of P.R. v. Conn. Gen. Life Ins. Co., 585 F.3d 33, 37 (1st Cir. 2009). We granted CVS permission to appeal on September 8, 2014, and have 60 days from that date to render judgment, unless an extension is granted. See 28 U.S.C. § 1453(c)(2).