B. Willis, C.P.A., Inc. v. BNSF Railway Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that dismissal without prejudice is usually nonfinal and nonappealable because party can amend complaint
• affirming dismissal of unripe claims but remanding to district court to clarify that those claims were dismissed without prejudice
• treating a docketing statement as the functional equivalent of a notice of appeal
• treating amended docketing statement as functional equivalent of second notice of appeal
• “[Plaintiff’s] prematurely filed notice of appeal, however, was not sufficient to give this court jurisdiction to consider an appeal from the district court’s final judgment.”
• “To invoke issue preclusion, there need not be a prior adjudication on the merits (as is often the case with res judicata) but only a final determination of a material issue common to both cases.” (internal quotation marks and citation quotation omitted)

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