Sentences with phrase «immediately appealable»

Second, under many anti-SLAPP statutes, an order denying an anti-SLAPP motion is immediately appealable, which means that even if the malicious prosecution plaintiff defeats the anti-SLAPP motion, the litigation can get bogged down for two or more years while sitting in the appellate courts.

If child support and alimony obligations are judgments, why aren't temporary orders on these issues immediately appealable?

If that makes your eyeballs bleed, it's to do with the fact that, at the time the District of Columbia passed its anti-SLAPP law, it was not clear whether a ruling under the law was immediately appealable.