1. A judicial or agency determination after consideration of the facts and the law; esp., a ruling, order, or judgment pronounced by a court when considering or disposing of a case. See JUDGMENT(1); OPINION(1). — decisional, adj.
appealable decision. A decree or order that is sufficiently final to receive appellate review (such as an order granting summary judgment), or an interlocutory decree or order that is immediately appealable, usu. by statute (such as an order denying immunity to a police officer in a civil-rights suit).
— Also termed reviewable issue. See COLLATERAL-ORDER DOCTRINE. [Cases: Appeal and Error 24–135. C.J.S. Appeal and Error §§ 35, 41–153, 189–191, 319, 736, 772, 774–775, 846, 848; Justices of the Peace§ 234(1, 2, 3).]
final decision. See final judgment under JUDGMENT.
interlocutory decision. See interlocutory order under ORDER(2).
unreasonable decision. An administrative agency’s decision that is so obviously wrong that there can be no difference of opinion among reasonable minds about its erroneous nature. [Cases: Administrative Law and Procedure 763. C.J.S. Public Administrative Law and Procedure § 224.]
2. Parliamentary law. VOTE(4).
3. Parliamentary law. The chair’s ruling on a point of order.
See appeal from the decision of the chair under APPEAL.
