United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Arch Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that an issue involving insufficiency of an affidavit was not \important enough ... to justify the application of the collateral order doctrine\
• concluding that an issue involving insufficiency of an affidavit was not “important enough . . . to justify the application of the collateral order doctrine”
• recognizing that “a challenge to a court’s authority to act” is an important question
• stating that the party invoking appellate jurisdiction bears the burden of establishing that it exists
• noting that to satisfy the collateral order doctrine, an appealed order must involve “an important and unsettled question of controlling law, not merely a question of the exercise of the trial court’s discretion”
• “[T]he burden of establishing appellate jurisdiction rests with the party who asserts its existence.” (citation and quotation marks omitted)

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