We, Inc. v. City of Philadelphia

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the Noerr-Pennington doctrine provides immunity from liability, not from suit
• concluding that Noerr-Pennington immunity was defense to liability and not immediately appealable
• “We have followed [the Supreme Court’s] admonition and consistently construed the collateral order exception narrowly. . . .”
• \Not all defenses that warrant a pretrial dismissal entail a right not to stand trial.\
• “If the order at issue fails to satisfy any one of [the Coopers & Lybrand] requirements, it is not an appealable collateral order.”
• “We have . . . consistently construed the collateral order exception narrowly ‘lest the exception swallow up the salutary general rule that only final orders be appealed.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).