PRETRIAL ADJUDICATION
...Summary Judgment & Summary Adjudication
......Posthearing Possibilities: SJ Granted
.........Appealable
9 Cards On This Topic:
  • SJ is appealable judgment.
  • Appeals from SJ filed more than 60 days after entry of judgment dismissed as untimely under (former) rule 2 (a).
  • Trial court's factual finding re date of service of (former) rule 2 notice of entry of judgment requires dismissal of appeal as untimely.
  • Order granting motion for SJ nonappealable as was not final judgment; in interests of judicial economy, appellate ct. deemed order final judgment.
  • Judgment is appealable even though it does not adjudicate plaintiff’s claims against other defendants.
  • Although appeal purportedly from nonappealable minute order, appellate ct. treated it as being from subsequent judgment.
  • Summary judgment not disposing of intervenor's complaint was not final judgment. In interests of justice, to prevent delay, ct. may amend to construct appealable judgment.
  • Though Ps purported to appeal from order granting Ds’ summary judgment motion and from order denying theirs, both nonappealable; ct. treated as appeal from final judgment.
  • Judgment entered on order granting summary judgment motion is appealable, while order denying SJ not appealable.