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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 4/1/1999

Geniviva v. Frisk

Citations

  • 725 A.2d 1209
  • 555 Pa. 589
  • 1999 Pa. LEXIS 982

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that a trial court order denying a motion to approve a settlement only implicated rights important to the parties to the settlement and did not involve broader public policy concerns
  • stating that “[o]nly those claims that involve interests deeply rooted in public policy can be considered too important to [be] denied review.” (quotation marks and citation omitted)
  • explaining that, for a right to be too important to be denied review for purposes of the collateral order doctrine, the right must be “deeply rooted in public policy going beyond the particular litigation at hand”
  • explaining that, for a right to be too important to be denied review for purposes of the collateral order doctrine, the right must be “deeply rooted in public policy going beyond the particular litigation at hand”
  • stating the question is “whether a right is adequately vindicable or effectively reviewable”
  • “For purposes of defining an order as a collateral order under Rule 313, it is not sufficient that the issue be important to the particular parties.”

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Judges: Flaherty, C.J., and Zappala, Cappy, Castille, Nigro, Newman and Saylor

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