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Parties Involved:
Kent Thomas Warren
Petitioner

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

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KENT THOMAS WARREN, 

 Petitioner,

v.

KENT THOMAS WARREN, 

 Respondent.

No. 16-605

(D.C. No. 5:15-CV-04878-SAC-SKS)

(D. Kan.)

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ORDER

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Before TYMKOVICH, Chief Judge, BACHARACH, and MORITZ, Circuit Judges.

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This matter is before us on Kent Thomas Warren’s petition for permission to 

appeal pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 5. The district court dismissed 

Mr. Warren’s civil suit and entered judgment on May 28, 2015. The time to file a notice 

of appeal expired 30 days later, on June 29, 2015. See Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A) 

(regarding time to appeal); Fed. R. App. P. 26(a)(1) (regarding computing time when the 

last day falls on a weekend). Mr. Warren did not file a notice of appeal. He now seeks 

permission to appeal.

Rule 5 allows a party to petition for permission to appeal, when an appeal is within 

the court of appeals’ discretion. Fed. R. App. P. 5(a)(1). But the timely filing of a notice 

of appeal is both mandatory and jurisdictional. Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 214 

(2007). Because the timely filing of a notice of appeal is mandatory and jurisdictional, 

FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

August 11, 2016

Elisabeth A. Shumaker

Clerk of Court

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this court has no discretion to permit an appeal beyond the filing deadline. Accordingly, 

the petition for permission to appeal is denied.

Entered for the Court

ELISABETH A. SHUMAKER, Clerk

by: Jane K. Castro

 Counsel to the Clerk

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