§ 1294.Orders Or Judgments From Which Party May Appeal

California pushes hard against letting parties chip away at an arbitration through a string of separate appeals, and this section is where that policy takes concrete shape. It lists the only orders and judgments a party may appeal under this title. Anything not on the list has to wait, if it can be reviewed at all before the case is over.

Five categories make the cut. An order dismissing or denying a petition to compel arbitration is appealable, and perfecting that appeal doesn't automatically pause the trial court proceedings while the appeal is pending, unlike many other appeals. An order dismissing a petition to confirm, correct, or vacate an award is appealable too. So is an order vacating an award -- but only if the court didn't also order a rehearing in arbitration, since ordering rehearing keeps the case alive rather than ending it. A judgment entered under this title is appealable, as is a special order made after final judgment.

Everything else -- an order compelling arbitration, an order confirming or correcting an award, most interlocutory rulings that arise along the way -- falls outside this list and generally isn't immediately appealable. That gap is intentional: forcing disputes about arbitrability and procedure to await a final, appealable disposition keeps a losing party from using piecemeal appeals to slow down or derail the arbitration process itself.