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In Re Foley

Citations

  • 820 A.2d 587
  • 373 Md. 627
  • 2003 Md. LEXIS 154

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that fourth prong of collateral order doctrine was not satisfied in case of discovery order permitting medical examination, even though order may not be renewable on appeal from a final judgment if party challenging order prevails in underlying action
  • stating that in Maryland, the four requirements of the collateral order doctrine are strictly applied and appeals under the doctrine may be entertained only in extraordinary circumstances
  • reversing the Court of Special Appeals’s holding that a discovery order for a medical examination of the subject of a guardianship proceeding met the four requirements of the collateral order doctrine because the order did not satisfy the third and fourth requirements
  • reversing the Court of Special Appeals’s holding that a discovery order for a medical examination of the subject of a guardianship proceeding met the four requirements of the collateral order doctrine because the order did not satisfy the third and fourth requirements
  • “[I]n Maryland the four requirements of the collateral order doctrine are very strictly applied, and appeals under the doctrine may be entertained only in extraordinary circumstances”
  • “[T]he doctrine may be entertained only in extraordinary circumstances”

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Judges: Eldridge

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