7th Circuit Lacks Jurisdiction, Tosses Appeal In Preclusion Dispute

( June 5, 2025, 9:33 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals dismissed an interlocutory appeal brought by the successor to a dissolved coal mining company in a decades-long dispute over whether mine subsidence claims are barred by claim and issue preclusion, holding that it lacked jurisdiction to review a district court’s partial dismissal of claims seeking to bar future litigation by a reinsurer because the lower court’s order neither definitively denied injunctive relief nor addressed claims materially distinct from those still pending....