Opinion ID: 524999
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: city of rockwall's appeal

Text: 114 I agree with the majority that we lack appellate jurisdiction to hear the City of Rockwall's collateral final appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291 and Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S. 511, 105 S.Ct. 2806, 2814-16, 86 L.Ed.2d 411 (1985). Although the majority uses the phrase interlocutory appeal, I note that the officers' immediate appeal is properly before this court as a final, appealable collateral order pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291 and Mitchell v. Forsyth, and not as an interlocutory appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1292. To assert an interlocutory appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1292, the City would have to receive a certification of interlocutory appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1292(b) from the district court, which the City did not receive in this case. Believing that the majority's opinion is not inconsistent with my stated understanding of appealability, I add my concurrence to this portion of the majority's decision.