Alpine Glass, Inc. v. Country Mut. Ins. Co., No. 10-3682 (8th Cir. 2012)
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Alpine Glass, Inc. appealed the district court's partial denial of Alpine's motion to consolidate 482 short-pay claims for arbitration against the Country Mutual Insurance Co. and five of its subsidiaries. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed Alpine's appeal for lack of appellate jurisdiction, holding (1) the Court lacked jurisdiction to hear the appeal under 28 U.S.C. 1291 because the district court's order was not a final order; and (2) the denial of a motion to consolidate arbitrations does not imperil a substantial public interest sufficient to warrant jurisdiction under the collateral order doctrine, and therefore, the order was not appealable under the collateral order doctrine.
Court Description: Civil case - Arbitration. Appeal from partial denial of Alpine's motion to consolidate 482 short-pay claims for arbitration against Country Mutual and its subsidiaries was neither a final order under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291 nor appealable under the collateral doctrine order, and the appeal must be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
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