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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
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FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

March 4, 2008

Elisabeth A. Shumaker

Clerk of Court

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

DERIKA L. JONES, 

 Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

SPARTAN SCHOOL OF

AERONAUTICS, d/b/a SPARTAN

SCHOOL OF AERONAUTICS,

 Defendant - Appellee,

and

UAW, Local 286,

 Defendant.

No. 07-5170

ORDER

Before TACHA, MURPHY, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.

This appeal is before the court based on a show cause order challenging

appellate jurisdiction and directing the parties to obtain a district court order

either granting certification under Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b) as to the November 16,

2007 Order appealed by Plaintiff Jones or explicitly adjudicating the claims

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against the remaining Defendant, UAW Local 286. See Stockman's Water

Company, LLC v. Vaca Partners, L.P., 425 F.3d 1263, 1265 (10th Cir. 2005);

Lewis v. B. F. Goodrich Co., 850 F.2d 641, 645-46 (10th Cir. 1988).

The court lacks appellate jurisdiction. The parties failed to move in the

district court for a Rule 54(b) certification. Plaintiff’s claims against Defendant

UAW Local 286 remain unresolved. Consequently, the district court order

appealed by Plaintiff is interlocutory and not immediately appealable under 28

U.S.C. § 1291 or under any recognized exception to the final judgment rule. 

Appellee-Defendant Spartan School of Aeronautics’s motion to dismiss is

GRANTED. The appeal is DISMISSED for lack of appellate jurisdiction. 

Entered for the Court,

Elisabeth A. Shumaker, Clerk

Kathleen T. Clifford

Attorney - Deputy Clerk

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