Source: s3://data.kl3m.ai/documents/govinfo/USCOURTS/USCOURTS-ca10-07-01413/USCOURTS-ca10-07-01413-0/pdf.json

Nature of Suit Code: 370
Nature of Suit: Other Fraud
Cause of Action: 

---

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

ROBERT W. MANN, individually and

as trustee of the Robert W. Mann

retirement trust,

 Petitioner - Appellant, 

 v. 

KIT BRADSHAW, a Colorado

Resident; ROBERT JOHN HUNTER,

a citizen of the United Kingdom;

RUSSELL GURNEY WILLIAMS, a

citizen of the United Kingdom;

MONA BINA VASWANI, a citizen of

the United Kingdom, 

 Respondents - Appellees.

No. 07-1413

 (D.C. No. 07-mc-57-BNB)

ORDER

Filed December 17, 2007

Before TACHA, Chief Circuit Judge, LUCERO and McCONNELL, Circuit

Judges.

The petitioner appeals an order of a magistrate judge denying his verified

petition filed under Fed. R. Civ. P. 27. We dismiss for lack of jurisdiction.

Except for proceedings conducted by the magistrate judge on consent of the

parties pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c), a court of appeals lacks jurisdiction to hear

an appeal taken directly from a decision of a magistrate judge. See Colorado

Appellate Case: 07-1413 Document: 010194230 Date Filed: 12/17/2007 Page: 1
2

Building & Construction Trade Council v. B.B. Andersen Construction Co., 879 F.2d

809 (10th Cir. 1989). “Whether the magistrate judge’s order to compel discovery

was dispositive or non-dispositive ... it [is] not a final appealable order until the

district court act[s] on it.” Phillips v. Beierwaltes, 466 F.3d 1217, 1222 (10th Cir.

2006). Because the district court has not done so, no final appealable order has been

entered in this case. Id. 

The magistrate, in ruling on the petitioner’s motion to reopen, acknowledged

that he lacked jurisdiction to rule on the petition and ordered the district court clerk

to reassign the case to a district court judge. Although the magistrate did not vacate

his order denying the petition, the petitioner’s remedy lies in the district court where

the matter is still pending. Id.

APPEAL DISMISSED. 

Entered for the Court

ELISABETH A. SHUMAKER, Clerk

Ellen Rich Reiter

Deputy Clerk/Jurisdictional Attorney

Appellate Case: 07-1413 Document: 010194230 Date Filed: 12/17/2007 Page: 2