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Parties Involved:
Sarah Early
Appellee
Cheryl Hara
Appellee
Karen McGovern
Appellee
Paul A. Mitchell
Appellant
Rocky Mountain Cancer Center
Appellee

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

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PAUL A. MITCHELL, 

 Plaintiff - Appellant,

v.

KAREN MCGOVERN, in her individual 

capacity as Current Director of the 

Colorado Medical Board; CHERYL 

HARA, in her individual capacity as 

Former Program Director of the Colorado 

Medical Board; SARAH EARLY, in her 

individual capacity as Executive Director 

of the Colorado Physician Health Program; 

ROCKY MOUNTAIN CANCER 

CENTER, 

 Defendants - Appellees.

No. 15-1188

(D.C. No. 1:15-CV-00559-CMA-CBS)

(D. Colo.)

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ORDER

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Before KELLY, HARTZ, and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.

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We raise sua sponte the question of whether this court has jurisdiction to consider 

this appeal. Appellant, Paul A. Mitchell, proceeding pro se, filed a notice of appeal, 

identifying six district court minute or text orders as the subjects of this appeal. The 

underlying district court case remains ongoing. 

Mr. Mitchell’s response to the court’s show cause order does not establish 

jurisdiction. Except in certain circumstances that are not present here, the court’s 

FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

June 23, 2015

Elisabeth A. Shumaker

Clerk of Court

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appellate jurisdiction is limited to review of final judgments. U.S. v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683, 

690-92 (1974). A decision is “not final, ordinarily, unless it ends the litigation on the 

merits and leaves nothing for the court to do but execute the judgment.” Cunningham v. 

Hamilton County, Ohio, 527 U.S. 198, 204 (1999) (internal quotations and citations 

omitted). Thus, “[t]he law normally requires a [litigant] to wait until the end of the trial to 

obtain appellate review of a pretrial order.” Sell v. United States, 539 U.S. 166, 176 

(2003).

Because the orders that are the subjects of this appeal are not final judgments and 

are not otherwise appealable, we lack jurisdiction to consider the appeal. 

APPEAL DISMISSED.

Entered for the Court

ELISABETH A. SHUMAKER, Clerk

by: Lindy Lucero Schaible

 Counsel to the Clerk

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