Opinion

Brown v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

  • 481 U.S. 1049
  • 2 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 256
  • 55 U.S.L.W. 3775
  • 125 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2440
  • 95 L. Ed. 2d 836
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
May 18, 1987
Status
Published
Cited by
72 cases
Authority
More cited than 96.6%

holding that an award of interim attorney's fees was appealable under the collateral order doctrine as soon as it became enforceable, because there was a significant danger that "the fees would disappear into insolvent hands" from which the city could not recover them if the award were reversed on appeal

How later courts described this case

  • holding that an award of interim attorney's fees was appealable under the collateral order doctrine as soon as it became enforceable, because there was a significant danger that "the fees would disappear into insolvent hands" from which the city could not recover them if the award were reversed on appeal
  • " '[sjtatus quo' to be preserved by a preliminary injunction is the last actual, peaceable uncontested status which preceded the pending controversy”
  • " '[s]tatus quo' to be preserved by a preliminary injunction is the last actual, peaceable uncontested status which preceded the pending controversy"
  • "[I.R.C. § 401] does not appear to create any substantive rights that a beneficiary of a qualified retirement trust can enforce”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

This record has no opinion text. It is a disposition such as a denial of certiorari, kept so the case can be found by name and citation.

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