What Is an Interlocutory Appeal?
Most people who find themselves in litigation assume that appeals happen at the end — after the jury verdict, after the judge’s final ruling, after the case is over. That assumption is largely correct. But it has an exception that matters enormously in the right circumstances. An interlocutory appeal is an appeal taken not at the end of a case, but in the middle of one — a request for the appellate court to review a specific ruling before the litigation concludes.