Larry Melancon v. Texaco, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the denial of a motion to remand is interlocutory and not immediately appealable
• finding that a bankruptcy court has the authority to reconsider its orders and may do so in its discretion
• “Orders granting or denying motions to add new parties to a pending suit are interlocutory and non-appealable.”
• “Orders granting or denying motions to add new parties to a pending suit are interlocutory and non- appealable.”
• collecting cases from different circuits stating the same general rule
• “As long as a district (or an appellate) court has jurisdiction over the case, then (in absence of prohibition by statute or rule), it possesses the inherent procedural power to reconsider, rescind, or modify an interlocutory order for cause seen by it to be sufficient.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).