Scroggins v. Edmondson

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• acknowledging that the court has adopted the three-part Cohen test (the “Cohen factors” to which Swint refers, as above)
• explaining that in order to properly file a notice of lis pen-dens in Georgia, the real property must be “actually and directly brought into litigation by the pleadings in a pending suit and as to which some relief is sought respecting that particular property”
• permitting direct appeal of order granting motion to cancel lis pendens notice
• trustee in bankruptcy sought a lien or trust, because the debtor as a preference paid off the security deed on the property
• orders granting motions to cancel lis pendens are directly appealable under collateral order exception because “an important right might be lost if review had to await final judgment”
• order granting motion to cancel lis pendens is directly appealable under collateral order exception

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