SHERI POLSTER CHAPPELL, District Judge.
Before the Court is Plaintiff John Short's Response to Order Granting Defendant's Second Motion to Dismiss (Doc. 44). The Court interprets the Response as a motion for leave to file an interlocutory appeal.
Interlocutory review is generally considered "bad policy" because of its piecemeal effect on cases. McFarlin v. Conseco Servs., LLC, 381 F.3d 1251, 1259 (11th Cir. 2004). However, a district court may permit an interlocutory appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) "when the order at issue (1) involves a controlling question of law upon which there is (2) a substantial ground for difference of opinion, and (3) when immediate appeal from the order may materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation." In re Yormak, No. 2:17-CV-73-FTM-38, 2017 WL 2645601, at *2 (M.D. Fla. June 19, 2017), appeal dismissed, No. 17-13239-FF, 2017 WL 4857438 (11th Cir. Sept. 13, 2017). "The movant seeking interlocutory appeal bears the burden of showing that all § 1292(b) requirements are satisfied and that the case is one of the rare exceptions in which the court should exercise judicial discretion to grant the remedy." In re Cmty. Health Sys., Inc., No. 15-CV-222-KOB, 2017 WL 604334, at *2 (N.D. Ala. Feb 15, 2017). "[I]f any elements are not satisfied, the Court must deny interlocutory review." In re Yormak, 2017 WL 2645601, at *2.
Short's Response does not address § 1292(b)'s requirements. Instead, Short argues that the Court improperly converted Immokalee Water's Second Motion to Dismiss into one for summary judgment.
Short also argues that the Court, in its Order, should have sua sponte allowed him to amend his complaint for a third time to better plead a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1981. This argument, too, is entirely without merit. Though Short's Second Amended Complaint unartfully asserts multiple statutory grounds for a single count, the Court has liberally construed the pleading in Short's favor, notwithstanding Short's failure to raise the point in his Response to Immokalee Water's Motion to Dismiss. Immokalee Water has not challenged Short's § 1981 claim, and the Court reserves judgment of its sufficiency until the issue becomes ripe. For his part, Short has not moved for leave to amend. If Short does not believe he has adequately pled a claim under § 1981, he has options, but an interlocutory appeal is not one of them.
Finally, Short argues the "Order imposes upon individual plaintiffs a much great [sic] financial and evidentiary burden[.]" (Doc. 44). Short's Title VII claim has been dismissed, but his § 1981 claim, based on the same facts, is still alive. It is absurd to suggest that simultaneously pursuing a Title VII claim before the 11th Circuit and a § 1981 claim in this Court would lessen Short's financial burden. And the Order imposes no new evidentiary burden on Short. Rather, it recognizes the well-established burden on all Title VII plaintiffs to exhaust their administrative remedies.
Accordingly, it is now
Plaintiff John Short's request for leave to file an interlocutory appeal (Doc. 44) is