{"id":697,"date":"2014-08-26T23:23:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T23:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/?p=697"},"modified":"2023-07-25T10:42:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T14:42:50","slug":"4-mcauslan-doctrine-provide-exception-appeal-denial-motion-leave-amend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/interlocutory-appeals\/4-mcauslan-doctrine-provide-exception-appeal-denial-motion-leave-amend\/","title":{"rendered":"(4) MCAUSLAN DOCTRINE DID NOT PROVIDE EXCEPTION FOR APPEAL FROM DENIAL OF MOTION FOR LEAVE TO AMEND."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.ri.gov\/Courts\/SupremeCourt\/Opinions\/12-23,%2012-24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Cayer v. Cox Rhode Island Telecom, LLC, <\/em>No. 2012-23-Appeal<\/a>, after the trial court granted summary judgment in favor of one of the defendants, it granted that defendant\u2019s motion for a Rule 54(b) judgment.\u00a0 <em>Id<\/em>. at 9.\u00a0 The plaintiff, in turn, plaintiff moved for leave to amend her complaint to include a claim against another party.\u00a0 <em>Id<\/em>.\u00a0 The trial court denied that motion and the plaintiff appealed.\u00a0 <em>Id<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On appeal, the Supreme Court held that the plaintiff\u2019s appeal was interlocutory and, therefore, not properly before the Court.\u00a0 In so holding, the Court recognized that generally, interlocutory orders are not subject to review unless (1) \u201cthe order or decree falls within one of the exceptions set forth in G.L. 1956 \u00a7 9-24-7\u201d or (2) the \u201corder [falls] within the ambit of [the McAuslan Doctrine, a] judicially created rule that permits review of an interlocutory order that has such an element of finality as to require immediate review by [the Supreme Court] to avoid possible injurious consequences.\u201d\u00a0 <em>Id<\/em>. at 9-10.\u00a0 For purposes of the McAuslan Doctrine, consequences are injurious \u201cwhen their occurrence is imminent and the damage they will work irreparable.\u201d <em>Id<\/em>. at 10.<\/p>\n<p>Against this backdrop, the Supreme Court concluded that the denial of the plaintiff\u2019s motion for leave to amend did not fall within either exception and, accordingly, the Court declined to entertain it.\u00a0 <em>Id<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Cayer v. Cox Rhode Island Telecom, LLC, No. 2012-23-Appeal, after the trial court granted summary judgment in favor of one of the defendants, it granted that defendant\u2019s motion for a Rule 54(b) judgment.\u00a0 Id. at 9.\u00a0 The plaintiff, in turn, plaintiff&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[18,13,14],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interlocutory-appeals","tag-appellate-practice","tag-interlocutory-appeals","tag-rhode-island-supreme-court"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}