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LANGLEY v. COLONIAL LEASING CO. OF NEW ENGLAND

No. 82-1564.

707 F.2d 1 (1983)

David J. LANGLEY, d/b/a Dave's Auto Service Center, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. COLONIAL LEASING COMPANY OF NEW ENGLAND, etc., Defendant, Appellee. Major Muffler Center, Inc., etc., Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 2, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oleg Nikolyszyn, Providence, R.I., with whom Randy M. Kornfeld, and Lester A. Lazarus, P.C., New York City, were on brief, for defendant, appellant.

Edward John Mulligan, Warwick, R.I., for plaintiff, appellee David J. Langley.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, BREYER, Circuit Judge, and SMITH, Senior District Judge.

COFFIN, Chief Judge.

Nearly a half century after the merger of law and equity in the federal courts, we are called upon in this appeal to decide whether a complaint is "legal" or "equitable". The cause of our labors is the so-called Enelow-Ettelson rule, a much-criticized exception to the general bar on interlocutory appeals, under which the denial (or grant) of an equitable defense—here, arbitration1—is immediately...

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