Carter v. Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• dismissing an appeal because the district court’s partial summary judgment was not final
• “[d]isfavoring piecemeal appeals is a long-standing policy of the federal courts”
• count seeking punitive damages, based upon same transaction or set of transactions, is not a separate claim
• “‘[djifferent facts’ and ‘distinguishable’ law do not alone qualify an alleged claim for separate judgment under Rule 54(b); that Rule may not be invoked in opposition to the ‘fundamental rule against splitting a [claim for relief]’ ”
• partial adjudication of single claim not appealable despite Rule 54(b) certification

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).