# Brown v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

> Supreme Court of the United States · May 18, 1987 · 481 U.S. 1049

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9062188

## Case

- **Full name:** Brown v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Co.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** May 18, 1987
- **Citations:** 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; 107 S. Ct. 2180; 1987 U.S. LEXIS 2105
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Cited by:** 72 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- 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 a…

## Opinion text

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