DEATH-KNELL DOCTRINE

death-knell doctrine. A rule allowing an interlocutory appeal if precluding an appeal until final judgment would moot the issue on appeal and irreparably injure the appellant’s rights. • Once recognized as an exception to the final-judgment rule, the doctrine was limited by the U.S. Supreme Court in Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay, 437 U.S. 463, […]