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Parties Involved:
Karl Grant Losee
Appellant
Steven Turley
Appellee

Document Text:

FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

June 8, 2010

Elisabeth A. Shumaker

Clerk of Court

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

KARL GRANT LOSEE, 

 Petitioner - Appellant, 

v. 

STEVEN TURLEY, 

 Respondent - Appellee.

No. 10-4088

(D.C. No. 2:08-CV-00188-TC)

(D. Utah)

ORDER

Before KELLY, HARTZ, and GORSUCH, Circuit Judges.

In a September 18, 2009 Order, the district court denied Karl Losee’s 28 U.S.C.

§ 2254 habeas petition. Petitioner Losee, proceeding pro se, appeals. We dismiss for

lack of jurisdiction. The notice of appeal is untimely.

Pro se appellants must comply with the requirements of the Federal Rules of

Appellate Procedure that govern all litigants. See Ogden v. San Juan County, 32 F.3d

452, 455 (10th Cir. 1994). Because no separate judgment pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 58

was entered by the district court, the time to file a notice of appeal did not begin to run

until 150 days after entry of the September 18, 2009 Order, see Rule 58(c)(2)(B), plus an

additional 30 days under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A). In this appeal, the 150-day deadline

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expired on Tuesday, February 16, 2010, see Fed. R. App. P. 26(a)(1)(C), and the 30-day

deadline expired on March 18, 2010. Petitioner filed his notice of appeal in the district

court on April 30, 2010, which was forty-three days past the March 18, 2010 filing

deadline. This court lacks authority to reopen the time to file an appeal. See Fed. R.

App. P. 4(a)(6).

The time limit for filing a notice of appeal in a civil case is “mandatory and

jurisdictional.” Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 127 S.Ct. 2360, 2366 (2007). 

Petitioner’s notice of appeal is untimely.

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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