Tom L. Ashlock v. Conseco Services, LLC

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that third factor is met where appeal “would serve to avoid a trial or otherwise substantially shorten the litigation”
• holding, 18 “[t]he term ‘question of law’ does not mean the application of settled law to fact” (internal 19 citation omitted)
• explaining that an interlocutory appeal “materially advances” the litigation when “resolution of a controlling legal question would serve to avoid a trial or otherwise substantially shorten the litigation.”
• explaining that resolution of an issue materially advances the ultimate termination of the litigation when it “would serve to avoid a trial or otherwise substantially shorten the litigation.”
• dis- tinguishing purely legal questions from questions about “the appli- cation of settled law to fact”
• certification must “serve to avoid a trial or otherwise substantially shorten the litigation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).