How to Use interlocutory in a Sentence

interlocutory

adjective

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Dorow — in granting Ostrowski's second stay motion Tuesday, six days following her interlocutory appeal — set an Aug. 5 status hearing on the adult case.
  — Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• No factor suggests that interlocutory appeal is appropriate.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 22 June 2022
• His interlocutory approach is gentle, meandering, even bumbling.
  — Ruth Graham, Slate Magazine, 4 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024