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Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

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SCOTT HARRIS KOBEL, 

 Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

DOUGLAS COUNTY JAIL; (FNU) 

BUNTING; (FNU) HAGENBUCH; (FNU) 

BELLINGER; (FNU) BROWN; (FNU) 

BUCHHOLTZ; (FNU) GREMM; (FNU) 

GRAHM; (FNU) MOFFITT; (FNU) 

DEATHE; (FNU) BROOKS; (FNU) 

BURKHARDT; (FNU) CHAVEZ; (FNU) 

ELLIS; (FNU) ELLIS; (FNU) 

WESBECKER; (FNU) CHEEK; (FNU) 

COOPER; (FNU) BLETTNER; (FNU) 

MARTINEZ; (FNU) HLADKY; (FNU) 

MILLER; (FNU) WINNER; (FNU) 

HANEY; (FNU) HOLTHAUS; (FNU) 

LANTZ; (FNU) MEYERS; (FNU) 

FALLEY; (FNU) LONGNECKER; (FNU) 

JACOBS; (FNU) KLINE; (FNU) 

FRAZIER; (FNU) SPRINGER; (FNU) 

DAVATZ; (FNU) TALLEY; (FNU) 

HAWK; (FNU) GOMEZ; (FNU) LOPEZ; 

(FNU) NELSON; (FNU) GRIFFITH; 

(FNU) RAMIREZ; (FNU) ZOOK; (FNU) 

ADEMA; PAT MOYA; YVETTE (LNU); 

DARCY (LNU); KAITLYN (LNU), 

 Defendants - Appellees.

No. 16-3336

(D.C. No. 5:14-CV-03085-SAC-DJW)

(D. Kan.)

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ORDER

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Before BRISCOE, LUCERO, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.

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FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

November 18, 2016

Elisabeth A. Shumaker

Clerk of Court

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Pro se plaintiff Scott Kobel appeals the district court’s order and separate 

judgment dismissing his civil rights case. The notice of appeal was filed long after the 

filing deadline passed, however, which deprives this court of jurisdiction to consider the 

appeal. Consequently, we conclude that the appeal must be dismissed.

“A timely notice of appeal is both mandatory and jurisdictional.” Allender v. 

Raytheon Aircraft Co., 439 F.3d 1236, 1239 (10th Cir. 2006) (quotation omitted). In a 

civil case like this one, a timely notice of appeal “must be filed with the district clerk 

within 30 days after the judgment or order appealed from is entered.” Fed. R. App. P. 

4(a)(1)(A). Although Mr. Kobel is proceeding pro se, he must comply with the time 

requirements in the procedural rules. Kay v. Bemis, 500 F.3d 1214, 1218 (10th Cir. 2007).

In this case, final judgment was entered June 10, 2015. To be timely, the notice of 

appeal should have been filed by July 10, 2015. The notice of appeal was not filed until 

November 17, 2016, well more than a year after the filing deadline expired. 

No exception to the late appeal is available to Mr. Kobel: he did not seek relief, 

nor could he obtain it now, from the district court. See Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5) & (a)(6). 

And the United States Supreme Court has made clear that federal courts “ha[ve] no 

authority to create equitable exceptions to jurisdictional requirements.” Bowles v. Russell, 

551 U.S. 205, 214 (2007). Therefore, “[t]he time limit has run and we are without 

jurisdiction under the facts of this case.” Jenkins v. Burtzloff, 69 F.2d 460, 464 (10th Cir. 

1995).

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APPEAL DISMISSED.

Entered for the Court

ELISABETH A. SHUMAKER, Clerk

by: Lara Smith

 Counsel to the Clerk

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