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Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

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RUBYE L. HARRINGTON, 

 Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

OKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 

et al.,

 Defendants - Appellees,

and

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF 

TEACHERS, 

 Defendant.

No. 15-6012

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ORDER

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Before KELLY, GORSUCH, and BACHARACH, Circuit Judges.

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We raise sua sponte the question of whether this court has jurisdiction to consider 

this appeal. The Appellant, Rubye L. Harrington, proceeding pro se, filed a notice of 

appeal of “final judgment entered [...] on 01/13/15.” The district court entered seven 

separate orders on January 13, 2015. The underlying district court case remains ongoing. 

Except in certain circumstances that are not present here, the court’s appellate 

jurisdiction is limited to review of final judgments. U.S. v. Nixon, 418. U.S. 683, 690-92 

(1974). A decision is “not final, ordinarily, unless it ends the litigation on the merits and 

FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

February 12, 2015

Elisabeth A. Shumaker

Clerk of Court

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leaves nothing for the court to do but execute the judgment.” Cunningham v. Hamilton 

County, Ohio, 527 U.S. 198, 204 (1999) (internal quotations and citations omitted). Thus, 

“[t]he law normally requires a [litigant] to wait until the end of the trial to obtain 

appellate review of a pretrial order.” Sell v. United States, 539 U.S. 166, 176 (2003).

Because the January 13, 2015 orders that are the subject of this appeal are not final 

judgments and are not otherwise appealable, we lack jurisdiction to consider the appeal. 

APPEAL DISMISSED.

Entered for the Court

ELISABETH A. SHUMAKER, Clerk

by: Lindy Lucero Schaible

 Counsel to the Clerk

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