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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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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

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COREY BURGESS, 

 Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

CHARLES DANIELS; PAUL A. 

KASTNER; PAUL M. LAIRD; CHARLES 

E. SAMUELS; MATT THOMPSON; 

EXINA; J.A. KELLER; ERIC H. 

HOLDER, JR.; U.S. D.O.J./F.B.O.P.,

 Defendants - Appellees.

No. 15-1307

(D.C. No. 1:13-CV-02191-PAB-CBS)

(D. Colo.)

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ORDER

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Before LUCERO, MATHESON, and McHUGH, Circuit Judges.

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Corey Burgess seeks to appeal the district court’s dismissal of his prisoner civil 

rights suit. We raise sua sponte the question of whether this court has jurisdiction to 

consider this appeal, given the timing of Burgess’s notice of appeal.

The timely filing of a notice of appeal is both mandatory and jurisdictional. 

Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 214 (2007). Because a United States officer and agency 

were among the defendants Burgess sued, the notice of appeal was due “within 60 days 

after entry of the judgment or order appealed from . . . .” Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(B). The 

district court entered its judgment on December 29, 2014. The notice of appeal was due, 

FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

September 8, 2015

Elisabeth A. Shumaker

Clerk of Court

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therefore, no later than February 27, 2015. Burgess filed a notice of change of address 

and notice of appeal well beyond this deadline, on August 27, 2015. 

Although the district court is authorized to extend or reopen the time to appeal if 

certain conditions are satisfied, the deadline for filing a motion requesting either form of 

relief had expired long before Burgess filed his notice of change of address and notice of 

appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5) (requiring a motion for extension of time to be filed 

no later than 30 days after the appeal deadline expires); Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(6) (requiring 

a motion to reopen the time to appeal to be filed within 180 days after entry of judgment 

or within 14 days after the moving party receives notice of the entry, whichever is 

earlier). In his August 27, 2015 notice of change of address, Burgess contends that he 

notified the district court of his change of address several times between March 2015 and 

August 2015, but none of Burgess’s letters to the district court were captioned for this 

case. Moreover, changes to his address between March 2015 and August 2015 do not 

address Burgess’s failure to file a notice of appeal from the December 29, 2014 judgment 

by the February 27, 2015 deadline.

Because Burgess’s notice of appeal is untimely and there are no means by which it 

could be deemed timely, this court lacks jurisdiction to consider this appeal. 

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APPEAL DISMISSED.

Entered for the Court

ELISABETH A. SHUMAKER, Clerk

by: Jane K. Castro

 Counsel to the Clerk

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