The Eleventh Circuit this month weighed in on the appealability and scope of Florida’s litigation privileges in the context of a defamation lawsuit. In Grippa v. Rubin, No. 23-11717, 2025 WL 997347 (11th Cir. Apr. 3, 2025), the court allowed—under the collateral-order doctrine—immediate appeal of an interlocutory order denying application of the absolute litigation privilege…
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No Jurisdiction Over Interlocutory Appeal in Employment-Retaliation Case
In Scott v. Advanced Pharmaceutical Consultants, Inc., No. 21-14214, — F.4th —, 2023 WL 6817369 (11th Cir. Oct. 17, 2023), the Eleventh Circuit concluded that it lacked jurisdiction to review an order granting partial summary judgment to the defendants in an employment-retaliation case. After the district court granted summary judgment to the defendants on three…