How to Use interlocutory in a Sentence

interlocutory

adjective
  • This time the court has said that Disney cannot have a stay of proceedings or interlocutory appeal.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The fact that the case is not yet settled complicates the appeals process, prompting the SEC’s motion to seek leave to file an interlocutory appeal.
    — Byleo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Additionally, Johnson filed two interlocutory appeals to the state appellate court, which paused action on his case here, and filed three motions to dismiss the charges.
    — Amy Lavalley, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • An interlocutory appeal is one made before the underlying case is resolved in the lower court and typically is granted only in rare circumstances.
    — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
  • This kind of appeal that occurs in the midst of litigation, called an interlocutory appeal, typically moves faster through the 9th Circuit than an appeal that is brought at the end of a case.
    — Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Oct. 2017
  • The House stripped the bill of the tougher penalties and kept the provisions to track the gun crime data and to include what is known as an interlocutory appeal, a legal maneuver that helps in prosecuting gun cases.
    — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2022
  • His interlocutory approach is gentle, meandering, even bumbling.
    — Ruth Graham, Slate Magazine, 4 Jan. 2018
  • Texas law also allowed the attorney general’s office to make an interlocutory appeal, a type of appeal that allows an injunction to be blocked before the state Supreme Court makes a decision.
    — Allie Kelly, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The court issued a ruling Wednesday saying there were no exceptional circumstances justifying an interlocutory review of the judge’s decision.
    — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Nevertheless, Viacom not only loses its attempt to avoid trial, but the judge rejects an alternative motion to certify the case for an interlocutory appeal, meaning one that would come before trial.
    — Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Rudofsky said had Payton done so, granting a motion on the stop and search claims while Payton pursued an interlocutory appeal on the handcuffing claim would have enabled the 8th Circuit to take up all three claims in one hearing.
    — Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Kentucky's Supreme Court denied a lawsuit over Kulkarni's spot on the ballot in a ruling Thursday morning, finding a lower court did not abuse its discretion in rebuffing a motion for interlocutory relief by two men who had sued over her candidacy.
    — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 24 Oct. 2024

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