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Parties Involved:
Lisa James
Appellee
Antresa Lumpkin-Knighten
Appellee
Tamika Seay
Appellant

Document Text:

[DO NOT PUBLISH]

In the

United States Court of Appeals

For the Eleventh Circuit

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No. 24-12720

Non-Argument Calendar

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TAMIKA SEAY, 

Plaintiff-Appellant,

versus

LISA JAMES, 

ANTRESA LUMPKIN-KNIGHTEN, 

Defendants-Appellees.

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Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Northern District of Georgia

D.C. Docket No. 1:23-cv-05232-LMM

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2 Opinion of the Court 24-12720

Before JILL PRYOR, NEWSOM, and LAGOA, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Tamika Seay appeals from the district court’s May 28, 2024, 

order denying two of her postjudgment motions. In the same order, the district court imposed filing sanctions on Seay, instructing 

the clerk not to docket any further submissions from her other than 

a notice of appeal. We issued a jurisdictional question as to

whether Seay’s August 19, 2024, notice of appeal is timely, and, 

specifically, whether her June 7, 2024, Fed. R. Civ. P. 60 motion 

effectively tolled the appeal period.

Although the parties did not respond, we conclude that we 

lack jurisdiction over this appeal. See Green v. Drug Enf’t Admin., 

606 F.3d 1296, 1300 (11th Cir. 2010). Because the 30-day period for 

filing a notice of appeal ended on June 27, 2024, we conclude that 

Seay’s August 19, 2024, notice of appeal is untimely. See 28 U.S.C. 

§ 2107(a); Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A). Moreover, if the June 7 filing 

could be liberally construed as a Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(4) tolling motion, that would still not render Seay’s notice of appeal timely because the district court effectively disposed of that filing on the day 

that Seay filed it based on the filing restrictions imposed in the May 

28 order. We thus conclude that, even if the June 7 filing effectively 

tolled the appeal period, Seay had until July 8, 2024, to file a notice 

of appeal. As such, her August 19 notice is also untimely. See

28 U.S.C. § 2107(a); Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A), (a)(4)(A).

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24-12720 Opinion of the Court 3

Accordingly, we DISMISS this appeal for lack of jurisdiction. 

All pending motions are DENIED AS MOOT.

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