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441 F.2d 732

Docket No. 18938.

Fleming v. Berardi

Full caption · 2 consolidated cases

  • Margaret Ann FLEMING, a minor, by her Guardian, Alvin H. Frankel, and Robert Fleming & Gladys, his wifev.Donna BERARDI and Anthony Berardi
  • Adele ROCKEYv.Beryle A. RAYMOND, Third-Party

Third Circuit Court of Appeals

Argued Feb. 4, 1971. Decided April 29, 1971.

Third Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1971-04-29

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1981

5 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“(D)enial of a motion to dismiss, even when the motion is based on jurisdictional grounds, is not immediately reviewable.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinea v. Insurance Co. of North America

Relies on Catlin v. United States · Groh v. Brooks v. Shallway Outdoor Advertising Co. · Pennsylvania v. Brown

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided 1971-04-29

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William T. Campbell, Swartz, Campbell & Detweiler, Philadelphia, Pa. (William J. McKinley, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellants.

David I. Grunfeld, Steinberg, Greenstein, Richman & Price, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellees.

Before McLAUGHLIN and VAN DUSEN, Circuit Judges and HANNUM, District judge.

OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM:

¶1

On review of the record, showing, inter alia, that the appeal challenges a district court order denying a motion to dismiss the action, we do not reach the merits.1

¶2

In accordance with Commonwealth of Pennyslvania v. Brown, 3 Cir., 373 F.2d 771, at 776, where the court said:

¶3

'It is settled that denial of a motion to dismiss, even when the motion is based on jurisdictional grounds, is not immediately reviewable.' Catlin v. United States, 324 U.S. 229, 236, 65 S.Ct. 631, 635, 89 L.Ed. 911 (1945).

¶4

for lack of an appealable order, this appeal will be dismissed.

1

Appellants urge the applicability here of Groh v. Brooks, 421 F.2d 589 (3d Cir. 1970), which held merely that the District Court was justified in its discretion in dismissing the complaint without prejudice to its reinstatement if defendants did not in fact waive the statute of limitations in the state court under the facts in that case. The state court had not refused to hear the case as here

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