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COASTAL (BERMUDA) LTD. v. E.W. SAYBOLT & CO.

No. 84-3313.

761 F.2d 198 (1985)

COASTAL (BERMUDA) LTD., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. E.W. SAYBOLT & CO., INC., Defendant, Third Party Plaintiff-Appellee, and Equity Shipping Corp., Third Party Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 23, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Contois, Jr., New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Stanley Renneker, James M. Tompkins, John E. Galloway, New Orleans, La., for E.W. Saybolt & Co., Inc.

M.D. Yager, New Orleans, La., for Equity Shipping Corp.

Before GOLDBERG, POLITZ and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

This appeal forces us to acknowledge a lumbering, antedeluvian concept that remains embedded in the judicial esse. A district court has stayed its proceedings in admiralty pending the outcome of an arbitration involving, among others, the plaintiff and third-party defendant. Although we would like in general to pass on the validity of such deferrals, we are as a rule bound to the mummified notion that stays in admiralty are nonappealable interlocutory...

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