Short answer. Rule 41, Section 1 lists seven: orders denying a petition for relief, interlocutory orders, orders disallowing or dismissing an appeal, orders refusing to set aside a judgment by consent, confession or compromise, orders of execution, partial judgments while the main case is pending, and dismissals without prejudice. The remedy is a Rule 65 special civil action.
What the law says
An appeal may be taken from a judgment or final order that completely disposes of the case, or of a particular matter therein when declared by these Rules to be appealable.
Rule 41, Section 1 — Subject of appeal. Read the full provision →
What the law says
In any of the foregoing circumstances, the aggrieved party may file an appropriate special civil action as provided in Rule 65.
Rule 41, Section 1 — Subject of appeal. Read the full provision →
What can be appealed at all
The starting point: An appeal may be taken from a judgment or final order that completely disposes of the case, or of a particular matter therein when declared by these Rules to be appealable. The dividing line is finality — a ruling that ends the litigation, leaving nothing more for the trial court to do, is appealable; a ruling that decides some incident while the case marches on is not. Most of the seven items on the prohibited list are applications of that single idea, which is why the list is best read as a map of finality rather than seven unrelated rules.
The seven orders on the list
The section bars appeals from an order denying a petition for relief or any similar motion seeking relief from judgement; an interlocutory order; an order disallowing or dismissing an appeal; an order denying a motion to set aside a judgment by consent, confession or compromise; an order of execution; a judgment or final order as to one of several parties or separate claims while the main case is pending, unless the court allows an appeal therefrom; and an order dismissing an action without prejudice. The last is worth pausing on: a dismissal without prejudice ends the case, but because the claim can simply be refiled, the Rules give no appeal from it.
The escape route: Rule 65
Being unappealable does not mean being unreviewable. The section itself supplies the alternative: In any of the foregoing circumstances, the aggrieved party may file an appropriate special civil action as provided in Rule 65. That is a different vehicle with different requirements — it targets a court acting without jurisdiction or with grave abuse of discretion, not mere errors of judgment — and it is not a substitute an unhappy litigant can reach for just because an order went against them. Which route fits is a threshold question that decides cases before any argument on the merits is heard.
Why the interlocutory bar matters most
In practice the item that catches most litigants is the interlocutory order — the denial of a motion to dismiss, a ruling on evidence, an order on discovery. None of these can be appealed on the spot; the remedy is to proceed to trial and raise the error in an appeal from the final judgment or, in the narrow circumstances Rule 65 covers, to file a special civil action. Attempting a premature appeal costs time and can cost the appeal itself, so before contesting any order, establish first whether it disposed of the case completely.