ANOMALOUS-JURISDICTION RULE

ANOMALOUS-JURISDICTION RULE anomalous-jurisdiction rule ([schwa]-nom-[schwa]-l[schwa]s). The principle that a court of appeals has provisional jurisdiction to review the denial of a motion to intervene in a case, and if the court of appeals finds that the denial was correct, then its jurisdiction disappears ¡ª and it must dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction ¡ª […]