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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

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ERIC JOHNSON, 

 Plaintiff - Appellant, 

v. 

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS; 

SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; CITY 

AND COUNTY OF DENVER, a 

municipal corporation; KATHY 

BILLINGS, individually and in her 

representative capacity; MIKE LUTZ, 

individually; LARS WILLIAMS, 

individually; CHARLOTTE PITT, 

individually; RICHARD VILLA, 

individually, 

 Defendants - Appellees. 

No. 16-1142 

(D.C. No. 1:14-CV-02095-PAB-KMT) 

(D. Colo.) 

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ORDER

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Before KELLY, BRISCOE, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges. 

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This matter is before the court on Appellees’ Motion to Dismiss For Lack of 

Subject Matter Jurisdiction, asserting that the notice of appeal is untimely. In a civil case 

in which the United States is not a party, a notice of appeal must be filed within 30 days 

of entry of the order being appealed. See 28 U.S.C. § 2107(a) (providing that a notice of 

appeal in a civil matter must be filed within 30 days of entry of judgment); Fed. R. App. 

P. 4(a)(1)(A) (same). 

FILED 

United States Court of Appeals 

Tenth Circuit 

July 21, 2016

Elisabeth A. Shumaker 

Clerk of Court

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This court does not have the discretion to allow an untimely notice of appeal; a 

timely notice of appeal in a civil case is both mandatory and jurisdictional. See Bowles v. 

Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 214 (2007). The district court entered final judgment on March 21, 

2016. Appellant filed a notice of appeal on April 22, 2016, 32 days after the March 21, 

2016 judgment. 

Because the notice of appeal is beyond Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure’s 

4(a)(1)(A)’s 30-day period, it is untimely, and the court lacks jurisdiction over this 

appeal. Accordingly, the motion to dismiss is granted. 

APPEAL DISMISSED. 

Entered for the Court 

ELISABETH A. SHUMAKER, Clerk 

by: Lindy Lucero Schaible 

 Counsel to the Clerk 

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