Background
Leonard W. Houston filed a pending action under the Camp Lejeune Justice Act of two thousand and twenty-two in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The district court issued a text order on February twenty-seventh, two thousand and twenty-six, denying his motion for leave to amend and supplement his short-form complaint. Houston sought to appeal this order.
The court’s reasoning
The court explained that it may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders and certain interlocutory and collateral orders under Section twelve ninety-one of Title twenty-eight of the United States Code and Section twelve ninety-two of Title twenty-eight of the United States Code. The order Houston seeks to appeal is neither a final order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral order. Accordingly, the court dismissed the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.
What it means going forward
The dismissal prevents appellate review of the district court’s procedural ruling on the amendment motion until a final judgment is entered in the underlying case.
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