Opinion ID: 548708
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: lifting of stay

Text: 17 The district court's order also lifted a previously entered stay of the adversary proceeding in the bankruptcy court. Stays of bankruptcy proceedings pending the determination of motions for withdrawal are authorized by Bankr.R. 5011(c). We hold that a court's grant or denial of such an ancillary stay, or its order terminating the stay if the motion is denied, is, like the withdrawal decision itself, not appealable under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291. In this case, the district court stayed the adversary proceeding in the bankruptcy court while it considered appellants' motion to withdraw that proceeding. Once the district court denied that motion in part, it was necessary to lift the stay in part in order to allow the proceeding to continue in the bankruptcy court. It would be anomalous to allow an interlocutory appeal from the latter decision while barring an appeal from the former. We decline to create such an anomaly. 3 18 Because no part of the district court's order is appealable, we need not consider appellants' theory of pendant [sic] appellate jurisdiction, which is asserted to provide appellate jurisdiction over all portions of a district court's order when only a single portion was independently reviewable. Appellants alternatively seek relief under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1651, the All Writs Act. In this circuit, mandamus relief may be available to gain appellate review of bankruptcy orders that are otherwise non-appealable. See, e.g., In re Barrier, 776 F.2d 1298 (5th Cir.1985) (per curiam). Moreover, that a motions panel of our court has summarily denied mandamus relief does not preclude reconsideration of the issue following assignment to the oral argument docket. See Key v. Wise, 629 F.2d 1049, 1054-55 (5th Cir.1980), cert. denied, 454 U.S. 1103, 102 S.Ct. 682, 70 L.Ed.2d 647 (1981). Appellants' present request is unavailing, however, because the court's order from which mandamus relief is sought does not do what appellants say it does: it does not conclusively determine their right to a jury trial in any particular forum. The extraordinary remedy of mandamus relief cannot be employed upon a mere predication as to how the district court or bankruptcy court may rule. For these reasons, the appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction. 19 Appeal DISMISSED.