Douglas v. Edwards CA4/1
"[N]ot every postjudgment order that follows a final appealable judgment is appealable." Among other requirements, California law is clear that to constitute an appealable postjudgment order, the order at issue must not be prefatory to a later judgment. (See, e.g., Lakin, supra, 6 Cal.4th at p. 652 [reviewing Supreme Court case law "determin[ing] the appealability of a variety of postjudgment orders," and stating that orders that were determined not to be appealable include those "although following an earlier judgment, are more accurately understood as being preliminary to a later judgment, at which time they will become ripe for appeal"]; Macaluso v. Superior Court (2013) 219 Cal.App.4th 1042, 1050 (Macaluso), quoting Lakin; Consumer Advocacy Group, Inc. v. Kintetsu Enterprises of America (2007) 150 Cal.App.4th 953, 980 ["postjudgment order is appealable where issue in order is different from issue in
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