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Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
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FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

January 4, 2010

Elisabeth A. Shumaker

Clerk of Court

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

RAYMOND CURTIS EVANS,

 Petitioner - Appellant, 

v. 

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF

THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; E.

HOLDER, 

 Respondents - Appellees.

No. 09-1579

 (D.C. No. 1:09-CV-02333-ZLW)

ORDER

Before TACHA, HARTZ, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.

This court lacks jurisdiction over this appeal.

The movant appeals an order of the district court transferring his 28 U.S.C.

§ 2255 motion to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. 

This court has jurisdiction to review only final decisions, 28 U.S.C. § 1291,

and specific types of interlocutory orders not applicable here. A final decision is

one that “‘ends the litigation on the merits and leaves nothing for the court to do

but execute the judgment.’” Cunningham v. Hamilton County, 527 U.S. 198, 204

(1999) (quoting Van Cauwenberghe v. Biard, 486 U.S. 517, 521-22 (1988)). The 

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transfer order here does not end the litigation in federal court. Accordingly, it is

not final or otherwise immediately appealable. . See F.D.I.C. v. McGlamery, 74

F.3d 218, 221-222 (10th Cir. 1996).

APPEAL DISMISSED. 

Entered for the Court

ELISABETH A. SHUMAKER, Clerk

Ellen Rich Reiter

Deputy Clerk/Jurisdictional Attorney

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