GELBOIM v. BANK OF AMERICA CORP.

No. 13-1174.

135 S.Ct. 897 (2015)

Ellen GELBOIM, et al., Petitioners v. BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 21, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Goldstein , Washington, DC, for Petitioners.

Seth P. Waxman , Washington, DC, for Respondents.

Karen Lisa Morris , Morris and Morris LLC, Counselors At Law, Wilmington, DE, David H. Weinstein , Weinstein Kitchenoff & Asher LLC, Philadelphia, PA, Thomas C. Goldstein , Counsel of Record, Tejinder Singh , Goldstein & Russell, P.C., Bethesda, MD, for Petitioners.

Brian E. Pastuszenski , Goodwin Procter LLP, New York, NY, William M. Jay , Counsel of Record, Keith Levenberg , Tamara H. Schulman , Goodwin Procter LLP, Washington, DC, for Respondents.

Jeffrey B. Wall , Counsel of Record, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Washington, DC, for Respondent Barclays Bank PLC.

Robert F. Wise, Jr. , Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, NY, for Respondents Bank of America Corporation and Bank of America, N.A.

Seth P. Waxman , Paul R.Q. Wolfson , Matthew Guarnieri , Thomas G. Sprankling , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC, Fraser L. Hunter, Jr. , David S. Lesser , Alan E. Schoenfeld , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, NY, for Respondent The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc.

Daryl A. Libow , Christopher M. Viapiano , Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Washington, DC, for Respondent The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.

Andrew A. Ruffino , Covington & Burling LLP, New York, NY, Alan M. Wiseman , Thomas A. Isaacson , Jonathan Gimblett , Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, Michael R. Lazerwitz , Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York, NY, for Respondents Citibank, N.A. and Citigroup Inc.

Moses Silverman , Andrew C. Finch , Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY, for Respondent Deutsche Bank AG.

David H. Braff , Yvonne S. Quinn , Jeffrey T. Scott , Matthew J. Porpora , Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY, Jonathan D. Schiller, Leigh M. Nathanson , Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, New York, NY, Michael Brille , Michael J. Gottlieb , Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Washington, DC, for Respondent Barclays Bank PLC

David R. Gelfand , Sean M. Murphy , Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP, New York, NY, for Respondent Cooperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A.

Ed De Young , Roger B. Cowie , Locke Lord LLP, Dallas, TX, Gregory T. Casamento , Locke Lord LLP, New York, NY, for Respondents HSBC Holdings plc and HSBC Bank plc.

Alan M. Unger , Andrew W. Stern , Nicholas P. Crowell , Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY, for Respondent The Norinchukin Bank.

Arthur W. Hahn , Christian T. Kemnitz , Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, Chicago, IL, for Respondent Royal Bank of Canada.

Herbert S. Washer , Elai Katz , Joel Kurtzberg , Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, New York, NY, for Respondent Credit Suisse Group AG.

Neal Kumar Katyal , Jessica L. Ellsworth , Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, DC, Marc J. Gottridge , Lisa J. Fried , Hogan Lovells US LLP, New York, NY, for Respondents Lloyds Banking Group plc and HBOS plc.

Thomas C. Rice , Paul C. Gluckow , Omari L. Mason , Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, NY, for Respondents JPMorgan Chase & Co. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

Robert Houck , James Miller , Alexandra deUrioste , Clifford Chance LLP, New York, NY, for Respondent The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc.

Ethan E. Litwin , Christopher M. Paparella , Marc A. Weinstein , Morgan J. Feder , Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, NY, for Respondent Portigon AG (f/k/a WestLB AG).

Peter Sullivan , Lawrence J. Zweifach , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY, Thomas G. Hungar , D. Jarrett Arp , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC, for Respondent UBS AG.


An unsuccessful litigant in a federal district court may take an appeal, as a matter of right, from a "final decisio[n] of the district cour[t]." 28 U.S.C. § 1291. The question here presented: Is the right to appeal secured by § 1291 affected when a case is consolidated for pretrial...

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