Court Opinion

ID: 9447163
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 22:27:26.335094+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:30:55.395166
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PER CURIAM.
Appellant has applied for rehearing of our decision of December 29, 1959, that amended Rule 54(b) of Federal Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C., does not allow such a finding of finality as is required for an appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 in a case “where a single claim against multiple parties is dismissed as against some but not all.” In the alternative appellant seeks an amendment of our order dismissing the appeal so as to permit appellant to proceed under the Interlocutory Appeals Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b), alleging that it would have sought to do this in the first instance if the rule stated in cur recent opinion had been previously announced.”
The petition for rehearing is denied. However, since here “the question of jurisdiction was not obviously settled by prior decisions,” the appropriate course is, in dismissing the appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, also to vacate Judge Palmieri’s judgment of September 1, 1959, for the sole purpose of permitting him to “enter a fresh decree” in which he may include the statement described in 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) if in his full discretion he determines that such a statement is here justified. See Phillips v. United States, 312 U.S. 246, 254, 61 S.Ct. 480, 85 L.Ed. 800; Rorick v. Board of Commissioners, 307 U.S. 208, 213, 59 S.Ct. 808, 83 L.Ed. 1242; In re Cooks Motors, 1 Cir., 142 F.2d 369, 370.
It is so ordered.