Hain Celestial Group, Inc. v. Palmquist · ¶30

That dismissal, the Fifth Circuit held, was erroneous. It was also “[i]nterlocutory,” meaning that it did “not dispose of the whole case.” Dupree v. Younger, 598 U. S. 729, 734 (2023). The “ `general rule' ” is that parties cannot immediately appeal interlocutory orders and must instead wait until the end of the case, when those orders “merge into the final judgment” and are “reviewable on appeal” from that judgment. Id., at 735 (quoting Quackenbush v. Allstate Ins. Co., 517 U. S. 706, 712 (1996)). Under that general rule, once the District Court entered final judgment in Hain's favor, the court's earlier jurisdictional holding merged into the judgment and was reviewable by the Court of Appeals as part of the Palmquists' post-trial appeal.

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