Commonwealth v. Shurtleff

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a lack of articulated reasoning is not a jurisdictional defect if the basis for the district court’s decision is “otherwise apparent”
• “An important effect of a 54(b) certification is that the entry of judgment permits prompt execution.”
• “The just economic interest of [plaintiff] in the prompt entry of a final enforcement judgment was a fact which the trial court could properly consider [in entering a Rule 54(b) judgment.]”
• “[I]t would seem that the trial judge did no more than anticipate what surely 7 would have been Lincolnwood’s next motion. In any event, the rule specifies no particular 8 procedure for obtaining a Rule 54(b
• “The defendant would have us construe [the FRCPs] to permit it to delay payment of an obligation which it admits is immediately, indeed past due. The district court was not persuaded that any just reason existed for further delay. Neither are we.”

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