Opinion ID: 2277507
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Text: In sum, while CR 65.09 reserves interlocutory relief from injunctive rulings for instances of extraordinary cause, our cases recognize that a trial court's improper denial of a motion to compel arbitration can supply that cause. Such is the case here. Although Hall, his wife and Traveler have taken pains to allege that North Fork breached the Assumption Agreement, not the Asset Purchase Agreement, the rights they assert all derive from the latter Agreement, not the former, and thus their claim plainly implicates the Asset Purchase Agreement's arbitration clause. By exalting the form of the Complaint over its substance, the trial court deviated from the Federal Arbitration Act's mandate that arbitration agreements be enforced and, consequently, abused its discretion. The Court of Appeals erred by ruling otherwise. Accordingly, we reverse the April 12, 2010 Order of the Court of Appeals and remand to the Pike Circuit Court for entry of an order granting North Fork's motion to stay litigation so that the claims asserted by Barry and Leetha Hall and Traveler Coal, LLC, against North Fork may be submitted to arbitration. MINTON, C.J.; CUNNINGHAM, NOBLE, and VENTERS, JJ., concur. SCHRODER, J., dissents without opinion. SCOTT, J., not sitting.