Bankers Trust Co. v. Mallis

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “courts of appeals must ... determine whether the district court intended the judgment to represent the final decision in the case”
• decision is final where “the District Court clearly evidenced its intent that the opinion and order from which an appeal was taken would represent the final decision in the case”
• The “sole purpose” of the separate document requirement is “to clarify when the time for appeal ... begins to run”
• “Even if a separate judgment is filed, the courts of appeals must still determine whether the district court intended the judgment to represent the final decision in the case.”
• Rule 58 requirements may be waived
• “[V]iolations of Rule 58 are not jurisdictional.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).