Melvin Gualberto Medina Martinez v. Carnival Corporation

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• explaining that an administrative closure is neither equivalent to a dismissal nor dis- positive of finality
• explaining that, while we take a functional approach to finality, an order administratively closing the case is not the same as dismissing the case and is not dispositive of finality
• noting that ad- ministratively closing a case is not the same as dismissing a case and finding that order compelling arbitration was immediately appeal- able where it “[n]otably . . . did not stay the proceedings, nor did it contemplate any further action on this case”
• noting that adminis- tratively closing a case is not the same as dismissing a case and find- ing that order compelling arbitration was immediately appealable where it “[n]otably . . . did not stay the proceedings, nor did it con- template any further action on this case”
• “[A] district court order compelling arbitration and staying the proceedings before the court is an interlocutory order that cannot be appealed.”
• “pertinent question . . . is whether the district court’s order . . . ended the litigation on the merits and left nothing more for the district court to do but execute the judgment”

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