James R. Ahrenholz, Plaintiff-Appellee/respondent v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Defendant-Appellant/petitioner

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• holding that a “pure question of law” is “something the court of appeals could decide quickly and cleanly without having to study the record”
• concluding that “question of law” refers to “a question of the meaning of a statutory or constitutional provision, regulation, or common law doctrine”
• holding that a “question of law” under section 1292(b) refers to questions about the meaning of a statutory or constitutional provision, regulation, or common law doctrine
• stating that a “question of law” involves a “question of the meaning of a statutory or constitutional provision, regulation, or common law doctrine”
• noting that a question of law is a “question of the meaning of a statutory or constitutional provision, regulation, or common law doctrine. . . .”
• explaining that a “ ‘question of law' as used in section 1292(b) has reference to a question of the meaning of a statutory or constitutional provision, regulation, or common law doctrine[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).