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Parties Involved:
Robert O. Lampert
Appellee
Fane Robert Sellers
Appellant
Wyoming Attorney General
Appellee

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

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FANE ROBERT SELLERS, 

 Petitioner - Appellant, 

v. 

ROBERT O. LAMPERT, Director, 

Wyoming Department of Corrections; 

WYOMING ATTORNEY GENERAL, 

 Respondents - Appellees. 

No. 16-8120 

(D.C. No. 2:16-CV-00210-NDF) 

(D. Wyo.) 

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ORDER

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Before KELLY, HOLMES, and MATHESON, Circuit Judges. 

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

this appeal. Appellant Fane Robert Sellers filed a pro se notice of appeal of the district 

court’s October 12, 2016 order, denying Mr. Sellers’ “motion to hear the petition for writ 

of habeas corpus,” filed in connection with his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition. 

The district court denied the motion after determining that Mr. Sellers failed to 

demonstrate the need to further develop the record. The district court has not yet decided 

the 2254 petition, however. 

Generally, this court’s jurisdiction is limited to appeals from final decisions of 

United States District Courts. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; see also Utah v. Norton, 396 F.3d 1281, 

1286 (10th Cir. 2005) (describing final decisions as those that end the litigation on the 

FILED 

United States Court of Appeals 

Tenth Circuit 

November 21, 2016

Elisabeth A. Shumaker 

Clerk of Court

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merits and leave nothing for the court to do but execute the judgment). “There is a longestablished policy preference in the federal courts disfavoring piecemeal appeals.” 

Grosvenor v. Qwest Corp., 733 F.3d 990, 995 (10th Cir. 2013) (internal quotation marks 

omitted). 

Because the October 12, 2016 order is not a final decision and is 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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