Sedco, Inc. v. Petroleos Mexicanos Mexican National Oil Co.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

Before us is an appeal from the district court’s order, 610 F.Supp. 306, refusing to order arbitration in a major lawsuit flowing out of the world’s largest oil spill.1 Presently plaguing the long suffering mariners *1143on their litigious voyage is an historically hatched rule of admiralty which often rears its head like a leviathan from the deep in order to founder those who seek interlocutory relief.2 Today, however, possessed with recent chartings by the Supreme Court and Congress, we are able to keep hands steady on the helm past the Schoenamsgruber peril.3 As…