McCarter v. Retirement Plan for the District Managers of the American Family Insurance Group

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an “appeal may be taken from an award of attorneys’ fees only after that award is independently final—which means, after the district judge had decided how much must be paid.”
• finding casino boat owner not vicariously liable where doctors were neither employees of the boat nor acting on its behalf
• finding casino boat owner not vicariously liable where doctors were neither employees of the boat nor acting on its behalf
• “only the most extraordinary circumstances could justify the use of whatever power the courts of appeals possess” to exercise pendent jurisdiction
• dis- tinguishing between final decision on merits and “final deci- sion on attorneys’ fees (or costs),” which is final when award is quantified
• “Plaintiffs’ claim may be weak, but the shortcomings of a legal theory differ from a lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.”

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