Opinion ID: 483247
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Issues Reviewable in Connection with Decisions Properly Appealed

Text: 63 In sum, we conclude that the decisions properly appealed here are the 1985 Judgment's dismissal of the complaint against the County, its dismissal of all of the claims of Landi, and its dismissal of the RICO claims in their entirety. Our review of these decisions may properly encompass a number of the court's pretrial rulings--such as those regarding the statute of limitations--that are reflected in the 1985 Judgment only sub silentio, for [a]n appeal taken from a judgment entered under [Rule] 54(b) brings to the court of appeals all issues determined in the district court which would be reviewable on an appeal from any final judgment. Bogosian v. Gulf Oil Corp., 561 F.2d 434, 443 (3d Cir.1977), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 1086, 98 S.Ct. 1280, 55 L.Ed.2d 791 (1978). 64 Finally, though we lack jurisdiction to review the court's interlocutory orders insofar as they pertain to plaintiffs' Sec. 1983 claims against defendants other than the County, our rulings on the propriety of the dismissal of the plaintiff class's Sec. 1983 claims against the County and of Landi's claims against all defendants will nonetheless have some applicability to the Sec. 1983 claims still pending against those three defendants. Those interlocutory orders remain subject to modification by the district court. See United States v. LoRusso, 695 F.2d 45, 53 (2d Cir.1982) ( 'whether the case sub judice be civil or criminal[,] so long as the district court has jurisdiction over the case, it possesses inherent power over interlocutory orders, and can reconsider them when it is consonant with justice to do so' ) (quoting United States v. Jerry, 487 F.2d 600, 605 (3d Cir.1973)), cert. denied, 460 U.S. 1970, 103 S.Ct. 1525, 75 L.Ed.2d 948 (1983). 65 We turn, therefore, to the merits of the dismissals challenged on this appeal. 66