Tossing as tardy Juan G. Guerra’s pretrial appeal from an oral ruling that rejected his request for summary judgment based on qualified immunity, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals explored the “mischief” created by the “strange interplay” between four procedural rules that, as amended in 2002, accidentally provide a 180-day window for some interlocutory appeals.William F. Ueckert Jr. claimed Guerra violated his First Amendment rights. Ruling from the bench, a district judge in Texas denied …