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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 

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TENTH CIRCUIT 

JOHN FLETCHER PENDERGRASS, ) 

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Plaintiff-Appellant, ) 

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GARY w. DELAND, Executive Director) 

of the Utah Department of ) 

Corrections; TAMARA M. HOLDEN, as ) 

Warden of the Utah State Prison; ) 

PAUL RASMUSSEN, as an inmate ) 

Disciplinary hearing officer, ) 

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Defendants-Appellees. ) 

OCT 15 1991 

ROBER'l' L. rtO~CKER 

No. 91-4069 

(D.C. No. 91-CV-148) 

(D. Utah) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before ANDERSON, TACHA, and BRORBY, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and the appellate record, this 

three-judge panel has determined unanimously that oral argument 

would not be of material assistance in the determination of this 

appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The 

cause is therefore ordered submitted without oral argument. 

Mr. Pendergrass is a state inmate. He filed a pro se 

complaint setting forth several disciplinary actions taken against 

him by prison officials and basically alleged denial of due 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

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process. The matter was referred to a magistrate judge who 

concluded the suit should be dismissed under 28 u.s.c. § 1915. 

The trial court dismissed the suit under 28 u.s.c. § 1915(d) 

as to two of the defendants and allowed Mr. Pendergrass twenty 

days to file an amended complaint against the third defendant. It 

is this order that Mr. Pendergrass appeals prose. 

The order appealed is not a final order and we therefore have 

no jurisdiction. See Grandbouche v. Clancy, 825 F.2d 1463, 1468 

(10th Cir. 1987); Adult Film Ass'n of America, Inc. v. Thetford, 

776 F.2d 113 (5th Cir. 1985). 

The appeal is DISMISSED. The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

Entered for the Court: 

WADE BRORBY 

United States Circuit Judge 

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