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First Circuit Finds an “Exception to the Exception” of the Merger Rule to Review Interlocutory Order

In Commonwealth Sch. Inc. v. Commonwealth Acad. Holdings, No. 20-1112 (1st Cir. Apr. 14, 2021), the First Circuit holds that it has appellate jurisdiction over an interlocutory order denying enforcement of a settlement, in a case testing the length of an exception to the merger rule. The parties, two private schools, were locked in aContinue reading “First Circuit Finds an “Exception to the Exception” of the Merger Rule to Review Interlocutory Order”