Esposito v. Horning

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that although it may sound like \legal gobbledegook\ to require a trial court to re-enter a final judgment after a non-final appeal is concluded, jurisdiction is not a question a court can take or leave, and a judgment entered without jurisdiction is void
• holding that although it may sound like “legal gobbledegook” to require a trial court to re-enter a final judgment after a non-final appeal is concluded, jurisdiction is not a question a court can take or leave, and a judgment entered without jurisdiction is void
• finding that a final judgment entered while an appeal was pending was a nullity
• reversing nonfinal order and noting that final judgment, entered while nonfinal appeal was pending, was void
• while non-final order was on appeal trial court had jurisdiction to proceed with the case but not to enter a final judgment
• “[J]urisdiction is not a question a court can take or leave, and a judgment entered without jurisdiction is void.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).