In his latest column for Daily Journal, Manatt Appellate Partner Benjamin Shatz discussed a long-running family law divorce case in which the court dismissed the appeal of a vexatious litigant, acting in propria persona, on the grounds that the trial court order was not appealable.
In the article, Shatz examined the “legal feast of In re Marriage of Deal,” and explained how the Court of Appeal dismissed Thomas Deal’s appeal not only as frivolous, but because the order denying his request for permission to file new litigation was not appealable. “It is this appealability analysis that probably accounts for the opinion’s publication, and why it attracted interest among appellate and civil procedure buffs,” Shatz said.
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