IN RE RECTICEL FOAM CORP.

Nos. 88-1204, 88-1298.

859 F.2d 1000 (1988)

In re RECTICEL FOAM CORPORATION, Petitioner. In re SAN JUAN DUPONT PLAZA HOTEL FIRE LITIGATION. Appeal of RECTICEL FOAM CORPORATION, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 20, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Humphreys, Jr., with whom Todd R. David and Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Ga., were on brief for appellant.

Louis N. Massery with whom Cooley, Manion, Moore & Jones, P.C., Boston, Mass., was on brief for appellees Milliken, Sinclair Paint Co., Western Bench Craft, Inc., Barber Coleman, Diversitech, Ross & Roberts.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, and TORRUELLA and SELYA, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

There are two consolidated matters before us at this juncture. They are an odd couple: an interlocutory appeal and a petition for writ of mandamus.1 Because we find that the challenged orders (1) are not "final" within the purview of 28 U.S.C. § 1291 (1982), (2) do not come within the encincture of our jurisdiction under any recognized exception to the finality principle, and (3) are not suitable grist for the...

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