Super Fresh Food Markets of Virginia, Inc. v. Ruffin

How courts have described this case

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• stating that Concerned Taxpayers demonstrates the “distinction to be drawn between an order that renders judgment and retains jurisdiction and an order that renders judgment but does not retain jurisdiction for purposes of when the twenty-one day time period under Rule 1:1 commences to run”
• focusing on language that expressly indicates that “the order is not rendering final judgment”
• a trial court loses jurisdiction to enter orders in a case twenty-one days after entry of a final order
• “[T]he provisions of Rule 1:1 are mandatory in order to assure the certainty and stability that the finality of judgments brings.”
• “[A] final judgment is one which disposes of the entire action and leaves nothing to be done except the ministerial superintendence of execution of the judgment.”
• “Once a final judgment has been entered and the twenty-one day time period of Rule 1:1 has expired, the trial court is thereafter without jurisdiction in the case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).