Hall v. City of Austin

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that order signed after 2 bifurcated trial “is often interlocutory, because no final and appealable judgment can properly be rendered until all of the controlling issues have been tried and decided”
• stating a severance divides the lawsuit into separate, independent causes and a subsequent judgment which disposes of all parties and issues in one of the severed causes is final and appealable
• “The order entered at the conclusion of a separate trial is often interlocutory, because no final and appealable judgment can properly be rendered until all of the controlling issues have been tried and decided.”
• “The order entered at the conclusion of a separate trial is often interlocutory, because no final and appealable judgment can properly be rendered until all of the controlling issues have been tried and decided.”
• “An order for separate trial leaves the lawsuit intact [and in the same court] but enables the court to hear and determine one or more issues without trying all controverted issues at the same hearing.”
• “A severance divides the lawsuit into two or more separate and independent causes. After a severance, a judgment which disposes of all parties and issues in one of the severed causes is final and appealable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).