Opinion ID: 1928933
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Heading: Denial of Injunction

Text: Section 12-303(3)(iii) of the Courts Article permits an appeal from an interlocutory order entered by a circuit court in a civil case ... [r]efusing to grant an injunction.... Notwithstanding that the Town captioned its petition as a Petition to Stay/Enjoin Arbitration, the Court of Special Appeals did not err in viewing the petition as one seeking a stay of arbitration rather than an injunction. The mere characterization of a petition as a request for an injunction is insufficient to render its denial immediately appealable. See Security Admin. v. Balto. Gas & Elec., 62 Md. App. 50, 53, 488 A.2d 208 (1985) (§ 12-303(3)(iii) cannot be used as a transparent artifice for appealing that which is not appealable.). See also Greater Continental Corporation v. Schechter, 422 F.2d 1100, 1102 (2d Cir.1970) (order granting or refusing stay of arbitration is not grant or denial of injunction); Peat & Co. v. Los Angeles Rams, 284 Md. 86, 98-99, 394 A.2d 801 (1978) (order refusing to disqualify counsel not immediately appealable as denial of injunction). To hold otherwise would enable a litigant to appeal the denial of almost any preliminary motion by filing a petition to enjoin the proceedings which would follow the denial. See Security Admin., supra, 62 Md. App. at 53-54, 488 A.2d 208.