"In other words, Missouri law is clear that a motion that is expressly declared by Supreme Court Rule to be an independent action must be resolved by an independent judgment that meets the ...

When is a final judgment not final? In an opinion by Justice Thomas unanimously reversing the Second Circuit, the Supreme Court reaffirmed on June 5 that the bar for reopening a final judgment under ...

The Law Court typically may only consider an appeal of a “final judgment”—that is, a decision that fully decides and disposes of the parties’ entire case and leaves no further questions for ...

After choosing not to defend the regulation in an earlier case, the Department of Labor has again declined to oppose a motion for final judgment in a second legal challenge to the fiduciary rule. The ...

Litigants routinely fall into the finality trap when trying to appeal from a partial final judgment. What is the finality trap and how does this happen? The typical scenario goes like this: a ...