Tweedle v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the Eighth Circuit has “jurisdiction to determine [its] own jurisdiction over [an] appeal”
• explaining that a post-judgment decision may be final even if factually and legally unrelated issues are left pending at the time it is issued
• “A district court’s sense of finality . . . does not determine whether we have jurisdiction over an appeal . . . .”
• Courts deciding timeliness must “consider all surrounding circumstances, but especially the stage of the litigation, the reason for the delay in seeking intervention, and any possible prejudice to the parties already in the litigation.”
• “[N]othing in Rule 24(a) precludes postjudgment or even post-appeal intervention.”
• “[T]here must be some clear and unequivocal manifestation by the trial court of its belief that the decision made, so far as the court is concerned, is the end of the case.” (internal quotation marks and brackets omitted) (quoting Goodwin, 67 F.3d at 151)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).