In Re Slimick

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the order on appeal was a “complete act of adjudication” because it was an order “sustaining the trustee’s objections to the debtors’ amended exemption claim, finally resolved all issues regarding the claimed exemption”
• explaining that an order is final when it “does not refer to any contingency upon which finality depends”
• “[I]f, after filing a final disposition, a court files a more formal judgment, the latter does not constitute a second final disposition or extend the appeal period.”
• “Although no formal words of judgment are necessary to convey finality,” an order “stating ‘IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the objection ... is, hereby sustained,’ contained language typical of a final disposition.”
• “It is irrelevant that the court designated the first disposition an order and the later disposition a judgment. Appealability turns on the effect of the ruling, not the label assigned to it by the trial court.”
• generally “a formal judgment is prima facie the final decision” and courts do not assume that judges committed a useless act by entering a judgment unless “the evidence shows that the judge intended that” another order be final

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).