George E. Apostol v. Mark Gallion, John Auriemma v. Fred Rice, and City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a trial court “may award attorneys’ fees while the court of appeals 6 addresses the merits.”
• finding that “defendants who play games with the district court’s schedule forfeit their entitlement to a pre-trial appeal” on immunity
• explaining that the trial court “may award attorneys’ fees while the court of appeals addresses the merits”
• “During the appeal memories fade, attorneys’ meters tick, judges’ schedules become chaotic (to the detriment of litigants in other cases
• determining the district court did not have jurisdiction to proceed to trial after defendants appealed summary judgment denying them qualified immunity
• recommending, sensibly I think, that trial courts should use this style of certification to trigger a resolution of claims to competing jurisdiction with intermediate appellate courts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).