United States Third Circuit

In the absence of the district court's certification of its order as a partial final judgment pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b), appellate courts lack jurisdiction to review a district court which is not a final judgment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/12/2000
• Decided 07/26/2001
• Published 07/26/2001

Judges

• Before:  SCIRICA, AMBRO, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK, District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James P. Kimmel, Jr., (Argued), Peter Konolige, Marcy L. Colkitt & Associates, Wayne, PA, Counsel for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mitchell R. Katz, (Argued), Jay Starkman, Joel Magolnick, Moscowitz, Starkman & Magolnick Bank of America Tower, Luis E. Delgado, Homer, Bonner & Delgado Bank of America Tower, Miami, FL, Counsel for Appellee Berckeley Investment Group, Ltd., Michael J. Lawson, (Argued), Lisa M. Carvalho, Steefel, Levitt & Weiss, P.C. One Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA, James J. Kutz, Duane, Morris & Heckscher, Harrisburg, PA, Counsel for Appellee Shoreline Pacific Institutional Finance, The Institutional Division of the Financial West Group.