Most people think of an appeal as something that happens after a case ends. The trial concludes, the judge signs the decree, and if you lost on a significant issue, you have 30 days to file a notice of appeal….
A preliminary injunction does not wait for the litigation to finish. It operates now — today — which is exactly why getting it wrong has consequences that no post-trial appeal can undo. If a preliminary injunction was wrongly granted against…
The strategic question — whether to file an interlocutory petition at all — is addressed in the pillar article on interlocutory appeals in Utah. This article begins where that one ends. You have evaluated the ruling, assessed the standard, and…
Governmental immunity is not just a defense to liability. It is a protection from the burden of suit — from discovery costs, from depositions, from the years of litigation that precede any judgment. That distinction is not semantic. It is…
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.
Lotus Appellate Law handles appeals throughout Utah, serving clients in all counties and courts across the state including:
