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842 F.2d 1292Unpublished Disposition
NOTICE: Fourth Circuit I.O.P. 36.6 states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.Richard PEAMON, Plaintiff-Appellant,v.HOTEL AND RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES LOCAL 25, AFL-CIO;Washington Hilton and Towers, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 87-3769.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted Dec. 29, 1987.Decided March 4, 1988.

Richard Peamon, appellant pro se.
Mady Gilson, Jeffrey R. Freund, Bredhoff & Kaiser;  Deborah A. Folloni, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, for appellees.
Before WIDENER, K.K. HALL and WILKINS, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:

1
Richard Peamon appeals the district court order staying discovery pending resolution of the defendants' motion for summary judgment.  We dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.

2
Under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291 this Court has jurisdiction over appeals from final orders.  A final order is one which disposes of all issues in dispute as to all parties.  It "ends the litigation on the merits and leaves nothing for the court to do but execute the judgment."   Catlin v. United States, 324 U.S. 229, 233 (1945).

3
As the order appealed from is not a final order, it is not appealable under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291.  The district court has not directed entry of final judgment as to particular claims or parties under Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b), nor is the order appealable under the provisions of 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1292.  Finally, the order is not appealable as a collateral order under Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 (1949).

4
Finding no basis for appellate jurisdiction, we dismiss the appeal as interlocutory.  We dispense with oral argument because the dispositive issues have been decided authoritatively and deny the defendants' motion for attorney's fees.

5
DISMISSED.