Can’t Appeal Your Own Consent.
It is a truth acknowledged among all lawyers: the more obvious the point, the harder it is to find a good cite. For a long time, I could not find authority for the obvious proposition: you can’t appeal a consent order. You might ask: “Why would you want a case for thaaaat?! Who’d be simple enough to appeal a consent order?” Oddly, people appeal consent orders with decent regularity. I do not know why that is. Maybe the clients find themselves consenting in court to all sorts of things they later come to regret. Courts are disorienting that way. Whatever the reason, it happens. A lot….